Curriculum Vitae
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
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”
- 6th 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:
- 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):
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
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