Valeri Mladenov received his Ph.D. from the Technical University
of Sofia (TU Sofia), Bulgaria in 1993. In 2019 he defense a
"Doctor of Sciences" thesis at the same institution. In 2004 he
becomes the Head of the department Fundamentals of Electrical
Engineering. Since June 2011 he was a Dean of Faculty of
Automation, since Dec. 2011 he has been a Vice-Rector of TU
Sofia and since Dec. 2015 he has been a Director of the
directorate of Information and public relations. Currently, he
is Head of the Department of Fundamentals of Electrical
Engineering and Head of the Neurocomputing laboratory of TU-Sofia.
He is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands, and many
others. In 2014 he has been a Deputy Minister of Education and
Science in Bulgaria.
Prof. Mladenov's research interests are in the field of
electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, power systems,
electronics, neural networks, applied mathematics, and signal
processing. He has received many international research
fellowships. He has more than 350 scientific papers in
professional journals and conferences. He is a co-author of
twenty books and manuals for students. He had received many
research grants from, and others and also with his team he
participated and participate in many national and international
projects - H2020, FP7, Royal Society, DFG, NWO, Erasmus+, and
others.
As a member of several editorial boards, Prof. Mladenov serves
as an editor in chief, associate editor, and reviewer for a
number of professional journals and conferences. He is a Senior
Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Circuit and Systems
Technical Committee (TC) on Cellular Nonlinear Networks and
Memristor Array Computing (CNN-MAC), and an Educational
Activities Officer of the Bulgarian IEEE section. He is also a
Senior Member of the International Neural Networks Society
(INNS), Member of the International Council of Large Electric
Systems, (SIGRE), member of the Steering Committee of the
International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ISTET),
member of the Management Boards of the Scientific and Technical
Union of the Power Engineers, and the Union of Automation and
Informatics in Bulgaria.