Awards and Honours
Significant contributions to international professional bodies
Main research interests and areas of expertise
Performance Analysis and Engineering, Energy Efficient Computing. Parallel and Distributed Computer Architectures, Cloud and Services Computing, Component-oriented Design of Extreme-scale Platforms and Applications, Autonomous Computing, Message-passing Environments, and Hybrid Programming Models and Paradigms.
Research management and administration responsibilities and experience
1996 – to-date Leader, Distributed and Intelligent Systems Research Group
2014 – 2015 University Research Centres Review Panel: Lead, Main Panel A (STEM);
2012 – 2014 Panel B Lead, University REF2014 Committee
2013 – 2015 Member, Research Committee, Faculty of Science and Technology
2009 – 2015 Coordinator, Research Cluster on Parallel and Distributed Computing
2009 – 2013 Management Committee Member, COST EU Network Action ComplexHPC
2003 – 2009 Research Director, Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster
2006 – 2008 Leader, RAE 2008 submission in UoA 23 ‘Computer Science and Informatics’ for the University of Westminster’s
2006 – 2010 Executive Committee Member, EU STREP GridCOMP project
2004 – 2009 Executive Committee Member and Leader of the European Institute on ‘Grid Systems, Tools, and Environments’, EU CoreGRID project
1985 – 1989 Deputy Group Leader, Laboratory for Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1982 – 1985 Project Manager of the first Bulgarian IBM PC/XT compatible computer (1984), Central Institute for Computer Technology, Sofia