Personal Profile

• Name: Hristo Iliev
• Date of Birth: 5 October
• Birth-sign (for compatibility tests): Libra
• Shipping Address (for presents): provided on demand ;)
• Marital Status: single
• Education: PhD (Physics, University of Sofia)
• Mobile: SE K810i
• E-mail: hristo [at] icaci.info
• Jabber/GTalk: icaci [at] jabber.org
• Skype: hristoiliev

Higher Education

• 2009: PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics, Atomic Physics department, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia. Scientific advisor: Prof. Ana Proykova, Doct.Habil (defended on 07.07.2009, awaiting recognition from the Supreme Attestation Commission in January 2010)
• 2003: BSc in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia. Scientific advisor: Prof. Ana Proykova, Doct.Habil

Additional Education

• International Summer School Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XI, 4-17 September 2005, Leuven, Belgium
• NATO ASI Carbon Nanotubes: From Basic Research to Nanotechnology, 21-31 May 2005, Sozopol, Bulgaria
• TRACS programme (discontinued, replaced by HPC-Europa), April-June 2003, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK:
  • introduction to High Performance Computing
  • programming distributed memory machines with MPI
  • programming shared memory machines with OpenMP
  • scientific visualisation with AVS/Express
  • performance optimization

Participation in Conferences

• IRC-CoSiM Second Workshop, 15-18 October 2009, Gyuletchitsa — talk Performance evaluation and optimisation of scientific codes
• Meetings in Physics at University of Sofia, 2007, Sofia — talk “Useful defects in carbon nanotubes: from order to chaos”
• 6^th International Conference of Balkan Physical Union, 22-26 August 2006, Istanbul, Turkey — poster “Modulation of the band-structure of defective single-wall carbon nanotubes under a transverse electirc field”
• NATO ASI Carbon Nanotubes: From Basic Research to Nanotechnology, 27 May 2005, Sozopol — talk “Carbon nanotubes with vacancies under external mechanical stress and electric field”
• SIMS 2004, 23-24 September 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark — talk “Simulated Stress and Stretch of SWCNT”
• Meetings in Physics at University of Sofia, 2004, Sofia — talk “Mechanically Induced Defects in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes”

Prizes and Scholarships

• 1999 — 2003: Annual scholarship from “Eureka” foundation
• XXX International Physics Olympiad, 1999, Padova, Italy — silver medal
• National Physics Olympiad, 1999 — first place
• XXIX International Physics Olympiad, 1998, Reykyavik, Iceland — participant
• National Physics Olympiad, 1998 — fifth place

Scientific Interests

• physics on the nano scale (nanotechnology)
• computer simulation of physical processes
• parallel and distributed programming; parallel and distributed systems

Teaching Experience

• 2005 — 2009 summer terms: co-lecturer on Parallel programming with MPI, master’s programme Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia; High Performance Computing basics, master’s programme High Energy Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia

Leadership Experience

• 18—20 September 2006: co-leader of the bulgarian representative physics team at the “Vranceanu – Procopiu” competition, Bacau, Romania
• September 2004 — March 2006: member of the Governing Council of NGO “Local network — Student’s city”; chairman of the GC from February 2005 to March 2006

Professional Skills

• programming languages:
  • FORTRAN, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, shell scripting
• parallel programming:
  • MPI, OpenMP
• batch queuing systems (deployment & configuration):
  • Sun Grid Engine, Torque/OpenPBS
• (scientific) visualisation software:
  • AVS/Express, IBM Open Data eXplorer
• operating systems:
  • Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, AIX
• high performance cluster computing:
  • 112-core cluster Physon, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia (28 quad-core Xeon CPUs, 20 Gbps InfiniBand, Ubuntu Server x86_64, Solaris 10, Sun Grid Engine, OpenMPI)
  • 6-core cluster, Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (3 dual-core Pentium D CPUs, Gigabit Ethernet, Fedora Core 4 x64, Torque, LAM)
• content management systems (CMS):
  • Plone, Textpattern

Work Career

• May 2009 — now: Physicist, University of Sofia
• December 2008 — now: Physicist, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• August 2007 — now: .NET developer, Archimed eDMS, DAVID Holding Company
• September 2006 — July 2007: C++ developer, BalkanSys
• August 2005 — March 2006: WEB developer, helpdesk system, PSIT Group

Projects

• Web site of the Atomic Physics Department, University of Sofia
• Web site of the Integrated Research Center on Computational Sciences in the Microworld, University of Sofia
• [Bulgarian translation of MoinMoin] (be a nice guy, translate what’s left on MoinMaster)