Assoc. Prof. Maria Nisheva

   Curriculum Vitae

• Date and Place of Birth
  26 May 1958, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Current Position
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Informatics,
  Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI),
  "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia
• Education
  1979              B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Sofia
  1981              M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Sofia. Thesis title: "Experiments in Functional   Programming"
  1982 - 1985   Ph.D. student at the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Thesis title: "Computer Algebra System for Continued Fractions Manipulation"
  1989              Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Specialisations
  1992   University of Sussex and Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, UK, 3 months. Area: Knowledge Based Systems
  1994   University of Brighton and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2 weeks. Area: Knowledge Based Systems
  2001   Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 2 weeks. Area: Advanced Information Technologies

         2005   Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 months. Area: Digitsation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage

• Work Experience
  1981 - 1982  Mathematician, INTERPROGRAMA Institute
  1985 - 1988  Research Fellow, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Artificial Intelligence
  1988 - 1990  Assistant Professor, University of Sofia, FMI, Educational Microcomputer Laboratory
  1990 - 1991  Senior Assistant Professor, University of Sofia, FMI, Educational Microcomputer Laboratory
  1991 - 1994  Senior Assistant Professor, University of Sofia, FMI, Department of Computer Informatics
  1994 - 1999  Chief Assistant Professor, University of Sofia, FMI, Department of Computer Informatics
  since 1999    Associate Professor, University of Sofia, FMI, Department of Computer Informatics
• Leading Positions
  since 2002    Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence M.Sc. Programme at FMI
  2004 - 2007  Head of the Computer Informatics Department of FMI
  since 2007    Vice Dean of FMI
  
• Teaching Experience
  
• Academic courses at B.Sc. and M.Sc. level:
  Artificial Intelligence, Functional Programming, Logic Programming, Fundamentals of Programming, Problem Oriented Languages, Knowledge Based Systems, Expert Systems, Computer Algebra Systems, Semantic Technologies
  
• Supervising M.Sc. student projects:
  Supervisor of more than 40 successfully defended M.Sc. student projects in different areas of Computer Science
• Supervising Ph.D. projects:
  

• Research Areas
  Computer Algebra Systems, Knowledge Based Systems, Semantic Technologies, Digital Preservation and Access to Scientific and Cultural Heritage
  
• Project activities
  1991 - 1994  TEMPUS JEP 1497 "Transfer of Knowledge-Based System Skills to Bulgaria"
  1994 - 1996  TEMPUS JEN 1497 "Transfer of Knowledge-Based System Skills to Bulgaria"
  1995 - 1998  National Science Fund Project I-502/95 "Advanced Information and Communication Technologies in Education: Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods; Multimedia and Distance Learning"
  1995 - 1998  National Science Fund Project I-520/95 "Development and Application of Software Packages for Computer Algebra"
  1999             National Science Fund Project V RP-I-5/99 "Representation, Processing and Exchange of Knowledge Using Computer Algebra Systems"
  2000 - 2003  National Science Fund Project I-1002/2000 "Computer Algebra Tools for Mathematics Education"
  2003             National Science Fund Project IS-03 “Web-based Computations and Visualization”
  2004 - 2008  Project “Knowledge Transfer for the Digitisation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage to Bulgaria”, FP6 Contract N MTKD-CT-2004-509754

        2006 - 2010    National Science Fund Project D01-761 "Intelligent Sensor Systems for Security Enhacement"
        2008 - 2009    FP7 Project SISTER "Strengthening the IST Research Capacity of Sofia University", WP1 leader

        since 2009      National Science Fund Project DTK 02/54 "Information Technologies for Presentation of Bulgarian Folk         Songs with Music, Text and Notes", leader of FMI team

• Publications
  More than 50 papers in the fields of Computer Algebra Systems, Functional Programming, Knowledge Based Systems, Digitisation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage, Semantic Technologies, Digital Libraries; 2 textbooks
• Languages
  Native Bulgarian, very good command of English and Russian
• Address
• Official address:
  Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics,
  University of Sofia
  5, James Bourchier blvd.
  1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
• E-mail:
  marian@fmi.uni-sofia.bg