Academician IVAN PETKOV POPCHEV RESEARCH INTERESTS: control theory; informatics; decision theory EDUCATION: 1954-1959: Sofia Technical University 1967: Ph.D.Thesis: "Studies on the performance index of large scale control systems" 1980: Doctor of Sciences Thesis: "Multicriterial synthesis of control systems" ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 1962-1969: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria 1969-1981: Associate Professor at the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria 1981-1991: Professor at the Institute of Industrial Cybernetics and Robotics, Sofia, Bulgaria 1991-1994: Professor at the Institute of Information Technologies, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria 1995: Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 2003: Full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences PUBLICATIONS: Thirty books. More than 500 papers presented at world congresses international symposia and/or published in international journals (periodicals) in English, German, Bulgarian, and Russian.