Personal Profile

• Name: Hristo Iliev
• Date of Birth: 5 October 1980
• Shipping Address (for presents): ask first ;)
• Marital Status: not married
• Education: BSc (Physics, University of Sofia)
• Mobile: SE K810i
• E-mail: contact [at] icaci.info
• Jabber/GTalk: icaci [at] jabber.org

Education

• 2004 — 2008: PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics, Atomic Physics department, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia. Scientific advisor: Prof. Ana Proykova, DSc
• 1999 — 2003: BSc in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia. Scientific advisor: Prof. Ana Proykova, DSc
• 1996 — 1999: School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences “Nikola Obreshkov”, Kazanlak
• 1994 — 1996: Foreign Language School “Romain Rolland”, Stara Zagora

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

• 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

• 2005/2006 summer term: co-lecturer on Parallel programming with MPI, master’s programme Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia; a.k.a. High Performance Computing basics, master’s programme High Energy Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia
• 2004/2005 summer term: co-lecturer on Parallel programming with MPI, master’s programme Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, 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 governing council from February 2005 to March 2006

Expired Certificates

• Brainbench transcript:
  FORTRAN 77; General Science; Computers – Windows XP; Internet Concepts; General Linux Administration.

Professional Skills

• programming languages:
  • C/C++, Fortran (77/90/95) (expired Brainbench certificate – Master FORTRAN 77), Pascal (Object Pascal, Delphi), C#, Java, Basic (MS Visual, VB.NET), Python, PHP, Perl, shell scripting (sh, bash)
• IDEs:
  • MS Visual Studio (VS.NET 2008/2005/2003, VS 6), Borland Delphi (D7, D2005), NetBeans (4.x, 5.x), Sun Studio 12, Eclipse (3.0, 3.1), KDevelop (3.x), Zend Studio
• parallel programming:
  • MPI (LAM/OpenMPI, Sun MPI, Intel MPI), OpenMP (Sun OpenMP), POSIX threads, Windows threading
• batch queuing systems:
  • Torque, OpenPBS, Sun N1 Grid Engine
• (scientific) visualisation software:
  • AVS/Express, IBM OpenDX
• operating systems (in descending order of familiarity):
  • FreeBSD (4.x, 5.x, 6.x), Windows (XP, 2k, 98, NT4), Linux (Debian, (K)Ubuntu, Fedora Core, RHEL), Solaris (SunOS 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, Nevada), OpenBSD (3.7, 3.8), AIX (4.x)
• high performance cluster computing:
  • 8-core cluster, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia (8 Pentium 4 CPU, Fast Ethernet, Debian GNU/Linux, Torque, LAM)
  • 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)
  • 96-core cluster, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia (24 quad-core Xeon CPUs, 20 Gbps InfiniBand, Ubuntu Server 7.10 x86_64, Solaris Nevada, Sun N1 Grid Engine, Ganglia, OpenMPI)
• content management systems (CMS):
  • Plone (e.g. http://atomic.phys.uni-sofia.bg)
  • Textpattern (e.g. http://icaci.info)

Work Career

• August 2005 — March 2006: WEB developer, helpdesk system, PSIT Group
• September 2006 — July 2007: C++ developer, BalkanSys
• August 2007 — now: .NET developer, Archimed eDMS, DAVID Holding Company

Projects

• Portal site of the Atomic Physics Department at Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia
• Bulgarian translation of MoinMoin (be a nice guy, translate what’s left on MoinMaster)