Prof. Stefka Fidanova received a PhD degree from Sofia University in the field of parallel computing in 1999 and a DSc from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Science in the field of metaheuristic methods for combinatorial optimization in 2023. Her fields of research are stochastic methods for optimization, mathematical modeling, and parallel computing. She is a head of the Department of Parallel algorithms and machine learning with a lab of neurotechnologies at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. She is an author of more than 200 publications and has more than 1400 citations. She received the Marie Curie award from the Marie Curie alumni association at EC in 2018 for contributions to science. She is in the top 2% of the scientists in the world according to the Stanford University classification.
Prof. Stefka Fidanova received a PhD degree from Sofia University in the field of parallel computing in 1999 and a DSc from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Science in the field of metaheuristic methods for combinatorial optimization in 2023. Her fields of research are stochastic methods for optimization, mathematical modeling, and parallel computing. She is a head of the Department of Parallel algorithms and machine learning with a lab of neurotechnologies at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. She is an author of more than 200 publications and has more than 1400 citations. She received the Marie Curie award from the Marie Curie alumni association at EC in 2018 for contributions to science. She is in the top 2% of the scientists in the world according to the Stanford University classification.