Curriculum Vitae

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

Participation in Conferences

  • 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

  • 2005/2006 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):

Work Career

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