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Stefka Fidanova
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova is Bulgarian researcher.
Education
- 1982-1986 - student in Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Sofia University, BSc. degree.
- 1988 - Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Sofia University, Mathematics - M. Sc. in Mathematical Modeling
- 1999 - "St Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science - PhD in Computer Science and Applied mathematics. - Thesis title:"Synthes of Systolic Array" - Thesis supervisor: "Prof. DR. Raytcho Lazarov, Texas A&M University,USA - Thesis adviser: Prof. Hristo Djidjev, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
Professional record
- 1988-1989 - Specialization at the Laboratory of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Parallel Algorithms and Applications - adviser prof. Hristo Djidjev
- 1989-1992 - Ph. D. student, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Sofia University
- 1993-1998 - Researcher,Central Laboratory of Parallel Processing
- 1995 - 6 month specialization, Institute of Applied Mathematics and IMAG - Centre National de Recherche Scientifique - LMC, Grenoble, France, supported by French Ministry of Education - Parallel Architectures - responsible - prof. Denis Trystram.
- 1999 - 1 year Post.Doc at Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique,Sophia-Antipolis, France - Automatic Differentiation - responsible - prof. Laurent Hascoet
- 2000 - 2002 - Marie Curie Fellow of EC at IRIDIA Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Combinatorial Optimization Problems - responsible - prof. Marco Dorigo
- 2003 - 2005 - Assistant Professor, Central Laboratory for Paralel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2005 - present - Associate Professor Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 2007 - 3 months invited professor University of Malaga, Spain - Metaheuristics for optimization problems.
Fields of research
- High-Speed Computing and Parallel Algorithms.
- VLSI systems and algorithms.
- Parallel structures (Systolic Arrays, de Bruijn, Grid).
- Optimization problems, dynamic programming, metaheuristics, ants algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing, genetic algorithm.
- Automatic differentiation.