Research interests:

• Embedded Systems Design
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Advanced Computer Architectures
• Fault Tolerant Computing
• Crypto Systems
• Digital Signal Processing
• Systems on Chip
• Computer Systems Testing

Program committees (recent):

• Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS) (Program chair in 2006 / General chair in 2007)
• International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) (processor architecture track co-chair 2007 / PC chair 2008)
• Computing Frontiers (CF) (Program Co-chair 2009)
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
• International Supercomputing Conference (ISC)
• ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)
• IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC)
• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
• IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC)
• International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HiPEAC)
• International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES)
• International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS)
• International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

Refereeing (short list):

• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
• Journal of Systems and Software
• IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
• DATE - Design, Automation and Test in Europe
• International Test Conference (ITC)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Transactions on VLSI
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability
• IEEE Design and Test
• Journal of Low Power Electronics
• International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES)
• Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
• ...

Courses:

• Computer Systems Testing (Et4 076) (on Blackboard)
• Introduction to Computer Engineering (Et4 246)
• Elektronica (ET2 045ID) (digitale deel) (on Blackboard)
• Digital Systems (ET1 622TN) (on Blackboard)
• High Speed Digital Design for Embedded Systems (ET4 362) (on Blackboard)

Publications: conference and journal
(some recent awards)
USENIX/SAGE Large Installation System Administration conference (LISA 2006), Washington DC, USA, Dec 2006. Best paper award
Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2007 (WiSTP'07), Heraklion, Greece, May 2007. Best student paper award

Projects

I am the coordinator of an 8 million euros integrated project on scalable computer architecture SARC funded by the European Union (FP6 / FET-ICT contract no. 27648)

MSc Alumni/ae
 
In addition, I was heavily involved in the organization of the Master of Science in Computer Engineering program and coordinated it until September 2006.

Some Recommended Sites:

• Need a good (cheap) router?
• Great Utilities
• Delphi!
• Reconfigurable computing

Products I helped to become reality:

  Prontomail Screen Phone P112. Design & Engineering Showcase Award, CES 1999.
  For more examples, see CPS Europe and Pijnenburg HC (now Argus Vision BV) home pages

Short about me:

Some time ago (1964) I was born in one of the oldest (trust me on this one) cities in Europe. The modern name of the city is Plovdiv (this is in Bulgaria), however it is also known as: Kendros, Eumolpia, Philippopolis, Pulpudeva, Thrimonzium, Pulden, Populdin, Ploudin and Filibe. This is actually a short list considering the city exists for 6000 to 8000 years. You can read more about Plovdiv on Wikipedia, on its official .net web page or on plovdivguide.com. Being older than most of the oldest towns like Rome, Athens or Constantinople, an almost contemporary of Troy, Plovdiv is a town built upon layers of towns and bears a culture developed upon many layers of different cultures.

After my study at the 42-nd elementary school "N.J. Vapcarov" (yes the same school Hristo Stoitchkov used to hate) and the Secondary school of Electrical Engineering and Electronics "V.I. Lenin" (also known as TET Lenin) I went to Leningrad for my University study in Voenmech one of the best Technical Universities in the formal USSR. Needless to say, first I had to spend two years of my life in the Bulgarian army (having fun with radars) before going to Leningrad (another great city with many names called St. Petersburg right now).

On return I spent some limited time working for Kintex Ltd and much longer working for System Engineering Ltd in Pravetz (RIP) (having fun with IBM PC compatible computers and their peripherals). In the 90's I moved to the Netherlands and joined Pijnenburg Microelectronics and Software in Vught to continue having fun with Embedded Systems design now. In the same period I also added a degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Delft and a Dutch passport to my document collection.

Since March 2002 I am one of the Assistant Professors at the Computer Engineering laboratory, faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Only the future can tell what is next.