About me
I am a PhD student in Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab since 2017. TA of the courses: Parallel Programming (Spring 2018), AlgoLab (Autumn 2017).
I am interested in combinatorial algorithms, data structures, genetics, evolution, bioinformatics, immunology. I am working towards precise and reliable algorithmic methodologies in biology. We should eventually be able to reprogram a living cell the way we do with computers.
Religion: open source, open science.
Education
- Sofia University (1 year, 2008) – Computer Science, moved after 1 year
- Moscow State University (Specialist program: 4 years, 2009–2013) – Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Computer Vision
- Shumen University (BSc and MSc, 2014–2017) – Computer Science, thesis: Framework for Genomic Reconstruction Algorithms
- Yandex School in Data Mining (2 years, 2011–2013, private evening school), Moscow – Bioinformatics
- Attended numerous school in Informatics, Physics and Computer vision
Awards
- Four 1st places on Bulgarian national competitions in informatics (2006–2008)
- National (Bulgarian) Laureate in Informatics (2008)
- 11th place on TopCoder High School Finals (2008)
Industry
- Google (1.5 years, 2014–2015) – programmer (Search/Knowledge/Infrastructure)
Teaching
- Mentored high school students during Summer and Winter schools in Bulgaria, Russia and Portugal (2008-2016)
- Assistant for an algorithmic (Sofia University, 2009) and a bioinformatics (Coursera, 2013) course
- Full-time informatics competiton trainer (1 year) leading a group with 24 students
- Author and jury of informatics competitions for high school students (2008–2014)
Internships
- Martin Vechev's group (1 year, 2016): Genome assemblers, Single-cell Transcriptomics, T-cell receptor reconstruction
- Pavel Pevzner's group (2 months, 2013): Single-cell genome assembling algorithms
- Konstantin Severinov's group (9 months, 2012): Math modeling for microbiology
- Martin Vechev's group (2 months, 2012): Probabilistic verification for ecology
- Google Summer of Code (3 months, 2011): Computational geometry algorithms (CGAL)
- Industrial: glass cutting (3 months, 2007): Genetic algorithms for cutting optimization