TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SOFIA, BULGARIA Consortium – Capacity building and ExchaNge towards attaining Technological Research and modernizing Academic Learning

Jana Tsankova

Jana Tsankova is Chief Expert at the Faculty of Telecommunications responsible for learning activities and accreditation. She has MSc degree in Business Administration. Ms Tsankova has coordinated numerous projects related to the development of Online educational platforms, integration of ICT technologies in education, standardizing systems for higher education and external evaluation.

Agata Manolova

Agata Manolova is associate professor with the Faculty of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Sofia (TU-Sofia), Bulgaria and the head of the research laboratory “Electronic systems for visual information” and Vice-Dean Education of the Faculty. Her domains of interest are machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, image and video processing, biometrics, neural networks, augmented and virtual reality. She has received her PhD from Universite de Grenoble, France. She is laureate of Fulbright scholarship and an IEEE member.

Vladimir Pulkov

Professor Vladimir Poulkov has received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), Sofia, Bulgaria. He has more than 30 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience in the field of telecommunications. He has
successfully managed numerous industrial, engineering, R&D and educational projects. He has been Dean of the Faculty of the
Telecommunications and Vice Chairman of the General Assembly of the European Telecommunications Standardization Institute
(ETSI). Currently the Head of the Teleinfrastructure R&D at TUS and Chairman of Cluster for Digital Transformation and Innovation, Bulgaria. He is Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation; Senior IEEE Member. He has authored many scientific publications and is tutoring BSc, MSc, and PhD courses in the field of Information Transmission Theory and Wireless Access Networks.