Evgueni N. Smirnov

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

(long version)

 

 

 

 

Education and Qualifications

 

2001

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jaap van den Herik (Maastricht University)

Thesis Committee Members:

Prof. dr. Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University; currently, President of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence)

Prof. dr. Bob Wielinga (Amsterdam University)

Prof. dr. A. Zanten (Maastricht University)

Prof. dr. Leo Coolen (KPN Research, The Netherlands)

dr. Jan Talmon (Maastricht University)

1997

Postdoctoral Qualification, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jose Neves (University of Minho)

1996

PhD in Computer Science, Technical University, Sofia , Bulgaria.

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ludmil Dakovsky (Technical University, Sofia)

1989

Post-Graduate Qualification degree in Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Nikola Kasabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

1988

MSc in Computer Science, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Supervisor: dr. Atanas Margaritov (Oracle, Germany)

  

 

Academic Experience

 

1997- 

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Educational Activities:

Taught Courses to undergraduate students in knowledge technology:

(1)     Introduction to Computer Science;

(2)     Introduction to Programming  (Java),

(3)     Advanced Programming in Java; 

(4)     Data Structures and Algorithms (Pascal, Java),

(5)     Machine Learning (Weka),

(6)     Data Mining (Weka, Clementine).

Courses for Industry: Data Mining (Weka).

Supervision of MSc students.

Conducted research on machine learning.

1996-1997

Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Conducted research on machine learning.

1996

Post-graduate research fellow, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, (TEMPUS grant).

Conducted research on machine learning.

1995- 1996

Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Conducted research on machine learning.

1992- 1995

Research Assistant, Institute of Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Conducted research on expert systems, knowledge acquisition, and machine learning.

1988-1992

Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Educational Activities:

Taught Courses to undergraduate students in computer science:

(1)     Introduction to Programming  (Pascal),

(2)     Data Structures and Algorithms (Pascal),

(3)     Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Lisp, Prolog).

Supervision of MSc students.

Conducted research on expert systems, knowledge acquisition, and machine learning.

 

Professional Activities

 

1997- 

Department  of  Computer Science,  Maastricht  University,  Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Individual project work on: implementation of version space learning algorithms based on instance-based boundary sets.

Cooperative project work on:

(1)     Mining association rules of co-occurring diseases from medical data (together with MEMIC, Maastricht University);

(2)     Implementation of a self-organised auction-based system for informational retrieval together with the International Institute of Infonomics, Heerlen, The Netherlands;

(3)     Learning text classifiers for automatic profession-code classification together with the Central Bureau of Statistics, Heerlen, The Netherlands,                (project leader);

(4)     Measuring reliability text classifiers for automatic profession-code classification together with the Central Bureau  of Statistics, Heerlen, The Netherlands (project leader).

1996-1997

The University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Individual project work on:

(1)     implementation of decision-tree learning algorithms based on near-misses examples;

(2)     design of an intelligent system for incremental learning of inheritance (in logic programming).

1995- 1996

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Cooperative project work on:

(1)     implementation of version space learning algorithms with user defined inductive biases;

(2)     elaboration of minimum description-length heuristics for inductive learning algorithms;

(3)     implementation of an integrated system for empirical and analytical learning.

1992- 1995

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Cooperative project work on:

(1)     design of an intelligent system for allocation of non-ecological   objects;

(2)     implementation  of  a  system  for  learning   geographical  maps;

(3)     design of an inductive system for disjunctive concept acquisition.

1988-1992

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria.

Cooperative project work on: 

(1)     development of a production system interpreter for expert systems,

(2)     implementation of an expert system shell;

(3)     building an expert system for solving agricultural problems,

(4)     design of an intelligent tutoring system;

(5)     development of an inductive learning system for second-order concept languages.

 

 

Areas of Research

 

·        Machine learning

·    Empirical learning:

§          Version Spaces:

·          Mitchell’s version-space approaches to concept learning and description identification;

·          Conjunctive and disjunctive version-space approaches to concept learning and description identification;

·          Representation methods of version spaces: instance-based boundary sets, adaptable boundary sets;

·          Complexity of version space learning;

·          Effects of instance orders in incremental version-space learning.

·    Reliable Classification:

§        Meta Classifier Approach to Reliable Classification.

§        Version Space Support Vector Machines.

§        Typicalness Framework: Developing Strangeness Functions.

·    Combining analytical and empirical learning.

·    Multiagent learning.

·    Language learning.

·        Data Mining

·    Applications:

§  Data mining for information retrieval;

§  Data mining for medical applications.

· Inductive Databases: development of inductive-query machines based on version spaces.

·        Application of Text Learning

 

 

Scientific Awards

 

 

 The Best Paper Prize of the Thirteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ECAI-98), August, Brighton, UK, 1998.

 

Membership in Professional Organizations 

 

  • The Dutch Artificial Intelligence Association (member of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)).

  •  The Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems.

  •  The Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association.

  •  The Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians.

 

Reviewer for: 

 

·       International Journal of Artificial Intelligence

·       International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering

·       International Journal of Medical Informatics

·       Belgian-Dutch Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC)
·       Belgian-Dutch Conferences on Machine Learning (BENELEARN)

 

Technical Experience 

  • Programming languages: Java, Pascal, Prolog, LISP.

  • Operating systems: MS-DOS, MS-Windows.

  • Word Processors: Latex, MS-Word.

 

Personal Information 

  • Born - August 11th , 1965, Sofia, Bulgaria.

  • Languages- English, Bulgarian, Russian

 

Private Address

 

E.N.Smirnov

Wolkammersdreef 71C

Maastricht 6216 RN

The Netherlands

 

 

 

Status in The Netherlands

 

  • Holder of Dutch Permanent Residence Permit.

  • Holder of Dutch Working Permit.