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 of Theory 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 is a Director of the directorate of
Information and public relations. Currently, he is the head of
the Neurocomputing laboratory of TU-Sofia and head of the
Artificial Intelligence and CAD systems lab. at Sofia Tech Park.
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 ten
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 Nanoscale Networks and
Array Computing (CNNA), and Educational Activities Officer of
the Bulgarian IEEE section. He is also a 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.