Alexander Nikov Curriculum Vitae

Languages | Education | Employments | Degrees | Memberships | Awards | Conference activities | Reviewer | Invited Talks | Other

Languages
English, German and Russian fluently, Italian limited, Turkish limited, Bulgarian (native language)

Education

1965-1970	High School: German Language Gymnasium, Sofia
1972-1977	Student in Control Engineering at Technical University of Sofia (TU Sofia)
1980-1984	Ph.D. student in Biomedical Computer Science at Department of Automatics and Systems Engineering, TU Sofia

Professional Employments

2008-present	Head of Usability Lab at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
2006-present	Senior lecturer in Computer Science at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
2006	Director of Usability Lab at Department of Industrial Engineering of Fatih University in Istanbul
2005-2006	Full Professor in Human Factors Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction at Department of Industrial Engineering of Fatih University in Istanbul
2002-2005	Associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering and Quality Control at Department of Industrial Engineering of Fatih University in Istanbul
2000-2002	Head of Department of Human  Sciences and  Design
1994-2002	Head of Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Department of Human Sciences and Design of TU Sofia
1997-1998	Guest professor in Adaptive user modelling at HCI Research Department of GMD.FIT German National Research Center for Information Technology
1992-1993	Guest researcher in Human-Oriented Design of Knowledge-Based Systems in Industrial Design at University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany
1991-2002	Associate Professor in Ergonomics and Industrial Design at Department of Human Sciences and Design of TU Sofia
1990-1991	Vice-head of Department of Industrial Ergonomics and Design of TU Sofia
1987-1991	Assistant Professor in Industrial Ergonomics at Department of Industrial Ergonomics and Design of TU Sofia
1985-1986	Assistant Professor in Biomedical Computer Science at Department of Biomedical Computer Science of Medical University of Sofia
1980-1984	Ph.D. student in Biomedical Computer Science at TU Sofia
1977-1980	Engineer at a Company in Sofia

Degrees and Certifications

2005	Dr. habil. (higher degree than PhD.) in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
2005	Diploma for Full Professor in Ergonomics and Industrial Design of the Higher Certifying Commission, Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
1991	Diploma for Associate Professor in Ergonomics and Industrial Design of the Higher Certifying Commission, Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
1985	Ph.D. in Biomedical Computer Science of TU Sofia, Higher Certifying Commission, Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
1977	M.Sc. in Control Engineering of TU Sofia

Membership in scientific societies

Member of New York Academy of Sciences

Member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGCHI, USA

Member of Professional Group 1.1.4/2.3.3 Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems

Member of Association for the Advancement of Modeling and Simulation Technique in Enterprises (AMSE), France

Member of German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik GI)

Member of Professional Group Adaptive Hypertext & Hypermedia Human Resources

Member of German Human Factors Society (Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft GfA)

Member of IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force (LTTF)

Member of International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP)

Awards, raised scientific grant support

1978	Third Award of Bulgarian National Competition for young engineers researchers
1991	Fellowship of Italian Ministry of Culture on Human Factors in Telecommunications at Research Institute in Telecommunications Fondazione Bordoni in Rome, Italy
1991-1992	Fellowship of German Service for Academic Exchange DAAD on: Human-computer interface design at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Computer-related industrial design at University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany
1995	Fellowship of German Service for Academic Exchange on Ergonomics DAAD at Braunschweig University of Technology and at University of Karlsruhe, Germany
1997	Fellowship of German Service for Academic Exchange on Ergonomics DAAD at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
1997	Nomination in the 14th Edition of America's biographical publisher Marquis WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD
1998	Nomination in the 26th Edition of Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England
1999	Nomination in the 27th Edition of Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England
1999	Fellowship of German Service for Academic Exchange DAAD on Quality Management at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
2000	Fellowship of German Service for Academic Exchange DAAD on Occupational Safety at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
2000	Nomination in the 28th Edition of Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England
2001	Nomination in the 29th Edition of Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England
2002	Fellowship of EC program SOCRATES/ERASMUS on Emotional Web Usability at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
2005	Fellowship of EC program SOCRATES/ERASMUS on Affective Human Factors at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
2006	Fellowship of EC program SOCRATES/ERASMUS on Affective Engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

Professional Activities

Conference Committee Activities

Program committee, 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI International'99, Munich, Germany, August 22-27, 1999

Chair of session " Adaptive Interfaces", 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI International 99, Munich, Germany, August 22-27, 1999

Program committee, 1^st International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, Tenerife (Canary Islands); Spain OPR2000, February 23-25, 2000

Chair of session "Adaptable and Adaptive Interfaces", 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI International 2001, New Orleans, USA, August 5-10, 2001

Program committee, 2nd International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, Gran Canaria Island; Spain OPR2002, February 20-22, 2002

International Scientific Advisory Committee, International Ergonomics Conference "Ergonomics - Quality of Work and Products in Enterprises of the Future", May 7-9, 2003

Chair of session "Adaptable and Adaptive Interfaces", 15th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association IEA2003, Seoul, Korea, August 24-29, 2003

Program committee, First International Symposium on Occupational Risk Prevention and Health, Santiago de Chile, ORP2003,  December 1-3, 2003

Program committee, 3rd International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, Santiago de Compostela. Galicia. Spain OPR2004, June 2-4, 2004

Chair of session "Morphing, Blending, and Pointing",  Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2004, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, 2004

Chair of session "Information Systems II", 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, IMS'2004, Decision Support Systems: Computing with Words (CWW) and Computing with Perceptions (CWP), Sakarya, Turkey September 6-8, 2004

Chair of session, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, ICCI 2004, 17-19 December 2004, Istanbul

Technical committee, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Knowledge Systems, IKS-2005, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-24 June, 2005

Program committee, Second International Symposium on Occupational Risk Prevention and Health, Santiago de Chile, OPR2005, November 30-December 2, 2005

Program committee, 4th International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention,  Seville, Spain, OPR2006, May 10-12, 2006

Chair of session, Conference on Mathematics and its Applications, CMAIA2006, University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, September 25-26, 2006

Program committee, 5th International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention,  Santiago, Chile, OPR2007, May 9-11, 2007

Scientific committee, INMAS Forum - Integrated Management Systems, Barcelona, Spain, October 23-25, 2007

Chair of session, 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, MACMESE'07, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, November 5-7, 2007

Scientific committee, 4th International Conference on  Human-Computer Interaction, HCI2007, Venice, Italy, November 23-25, 2007

Program committee, 6th International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, La Coruna, Spain, OPR2008, May 14-16, 2008

Conference chair,  5th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ICHCI 2008, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, October 29-31, 2008

Scientific committee,10th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, MACMESE'08,Bucharest, Romania, November 7-9, 2008

Review Work

Reviewer, User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Reviewer, Interacting with Computers

Reviewer, Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Reviewer, 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT2004, Joensuu, Finland, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 2004

Reviewer, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2005, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 2-7, 2005

Reviewer, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Knowledge Systems, IKS-2005, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-24 June, 2005

Reviewer, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2006, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 22-27 April, 2006

Reviewer, Conference of International Association of Societies of Design Research, IASDR07, Emerging trends of design research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 12-15 November, 2007

 Reviewer, Informing Science and Information Technology Education Joint Conference, InSITE2008, Varna, Bulgaria, June 22-25, 2008

Invited Papers and Talks at Seminars, Meetings, and Symposia

"Usability engineering", International Meeting on New Information Technologies, Bistritza Sofia, March 1998.

"Adaptive Interfaces", Workshop on Ergonomics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, August 1998.

"Costs in Usability Engineering", International Workshop on New Information Technologies, Sankt Augustin, Germany, March 1999.

"Why Does Usability Pay Off?", International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance, Bankya Sofia, January 27-28, 2000.

Seminar on Emotional Web Usability, University of Wuppertal, Germany, June 26, 2002.

Seminar on Emotional Web Usability, Brunswick University of Technology, Germany, July 12, 2002.

“Usability standards and legal situation in Europe?", VNET5 Session: Best Practice in User-Centred Product Creation and User Validation in Electronic Publishing, Sofia, August 29, 2002.

"Affective Human Factors", University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany, June 1, 2005.

"Affective Human Factors", University of Technology Dresden, Germany, June 7, 2005.

"Computational Intelligence in veterinary medicine decision support", University of the West Indies, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, October 3, 2007.

Avey, C., P. Umaharan and A. Nikov, "Caribbean anthurium knowledge industry", Agriculture Investment Forum, Turkeyen, Guyana, June 6-7, 2008,

Other Professional Activities

1993-present	Consultant at AETION - European Network for Strategic Development
1994 - 2003	President and vice-president of Technical Committee for Ergonomics TC59 at Bulgarian State Agency for Standardization and Metrology
1997-present	Chair of Bulgarian ACM SIGCHI local chapter
1997-present	Member of CHI International Advising Task Force
1997-present	Member of International ACM SIGCHI Educational Resource Development Group
1998-present	Member of IEA Technical Committee TC11 "Human-Computer Interaction"
1997	Guest professor in Adaptable user interfaces at Human Factors Department of Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
1998-present	Member of ACM SIGCHI International Issues Committee
1999-2003	Expert evaluator in EC Programme IST User-friendly information society, Key Action II: New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce
2000-present	Member of Occupational Risk Prevention  Advisory Board
1999-2003	Expert evaluator in EC Programme IST User-friendly information society, Key Action II: New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce
2000-present	Member of editorial board of the journal Working and Living Environmental Protection
2002	Guest professor in Human-Computer Interaction at German University of Applied Sciences
2003	Member of promotion commission in Ergonomics at Technical University of Brunswick, Germany
2003	Member of Commission for Web Design Competition at Fatih University, Istanbul
2004-2006	Departmental Coordinator of EC ERASMUS/SOCRATES Program at Fatih University, Istanbul
2005	Member of editorial board of Issue Economics & Business
2005-present	Member of editorial board of International Journal of Intelligent Technology
2007-present	Member of editorial board of Scientific Journals International
2008-present	Member of international editorial board of  IST Transactions on Information Technology- Theory and Applications (ITTA)
2008-present	Member of international editorial board of  IST Transactions of Systems & Cybernetics-Theory and Applications (SCTA)