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 Professor Kamen VELEV, D.Sc.
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HOME ADDRESS:
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12, Arch. Milanov Str., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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OFFICE ADDRESS:
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University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy,
8, bld. Kliment Ohridski
1756 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel.: 8163320
Fax: 8685488
E-mail:
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DATE OF BIRTH:
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January 9, 1942
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PLACE OF BIRTH:
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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MARITAL STATUS:
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Married
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EDUCATION:
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Secondary school, Sofia, 1959
Diploma of Electrical Engineering,
Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, 1967
Diploma of PhD, Moscow Institute of Energy, 1973
Diploma of Dr.Sc, 1986
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
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Assistant Professor in Automatic Control, 1971-1980
Associate Professor in Automatic Control, 1981-1989
Professor in Automatic Control, 1989-
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OTHER POSITIONS:
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Vice-Dean for foreign students at Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (HICT), Sofia 1987-1989
Head of the section "Software in Quality Improvement" at the "Bulgarian Institute of Quality"-Sofia, 1989-1991
Head of the Department of Automation at HICT, 1991-1993
Rector of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM), Sofia, 1993-2003
Member of the National Accreditation Council, 1996-1999
President of Bulgarian Rectors’ Council, 1998-2003
Member of Higher Attestation Commission, 2003 – 2006
Deputy Minister of Education and Science, 2003 – 2005 President of the National Science Fund, 2004 – 2006
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Applied Statistics; Identification and System Parameter Estimation; Adaptive Control; CAD of Control Systems.
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ACADEMIC VISITOR:
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Higher Technical School Merseburg, Germany, 1981
Wroclaw Polytechnic, Poland, 1988
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, 1989, 1992
University of Paris-Sud France , 1992
University of Udine, Italy, 1993
University of California - Santa Barbara, USA, 1995
University of Maryland, USA, 1995
Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, 1996
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LANGUAGES:
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English, French, Russian
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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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Expert of the evaluation of TEMPUS projects, Brussels, 1991
Contact person of TEMPUS JEP-2538, 1991-1994
Contractor of ERASMUS Institutional Contract for UCTM, 1999-2004
Member of the Board of the Administrative Council of the Agency of Francophone Universities (AUF), 2001- 2005
Coordinator of ERASMUS project on curriculum development in chemical engineering, 2001-2004
Member of the Board of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (Council of Europe), 2002 – 2006
Vice-president of the Regional Commission of Experts for South-East Europe (AUF), 2002 - 2007
Member of the Board and Chair of the Evaluation Commission of the Scientific Council of the Agency of Francophone Universities (AUF), 2006 –
President of the Regional Commission of Experts for South-East Europe (AUF), 2007 -
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PUBLICATIONS:
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11 books and more than 100 papers in the fields of research interests
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