Andrea Kulakov’s Full CV
Education:
2006: PhD degree – Computer Science Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT, University “Sts Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia
1998: Masters degree – Cognitive Science Department, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995: University degree – Computer Science Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia
Professional Career:
2007 – present: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT, Skopje, assistant professor
2000 – 2006: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT, Skopje, assistant
1999 – 2000: Mak-System, Skopje - Paris, software & database development
Lecturing Courses:
Undergraduate level: “Data-Warehousing”, “Data-Mining”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Introduction to Robotics”.
Postgraduate level: “Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence”, “Developmental Robotics”, “Sensor-Robotic Systems”, “Eco-Data Processing and Eco-Monitoring”, “Ontologies for Annotation and Retrieval of Unstructured Data”, “Data Fusion” and “Remote Sensing”.
Lecturing courses in Oracle Database and SQL Server to several groups.
Educational projects:
Several EU TEMPUS projects among them: “ECOSYSTEM INFORMATICS -Development of Postgraduate Curriculum” (2007-2009), “Wireless Campus for Strengthening of Student Services” (2003-2005), “Virtual Digital Library and Digitalisation as a part of Distance Education System” (2002-2004) and “Development of a Virtual Laboratory” (2001).
Consulting experience:
A consultant to the Ministry of Environment and to several companies for developing databases and information systems.
Participation in research projects:
- “XPERO – Robotic learning by experimentation” (2006-2009), financed by European Commision through the Framework Program 6 (FP6), (principal investigator on the subcontractor side);
- “Modeling of learning in intelligent robots by applying the theories of dynamic systems and the interactivism” (2006-2009), financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia, (senior researcher);
-"Enactivist representations of environments in natural and artificial agents" (2001-2003), financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia, (researcher).
Awards:
- Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant by the IEEE Computation Intelligence Society, in 2005
(http://ieee-cis.org/edu/research/ scroll little below, the part for 2005), for the research work titled “Efficient Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks using Artificial Neural Networks”.
- Best graduated student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the generation 1990-95.
Publications:
More than 40 research papers presented on international conferences or published in international journals on Computer Science (Full list at: http://w3.etf.ukim.edu.mk/en/about/kadar/docenti/akulakov.html ).
Research interests:
Business Intelligence, Multimedia Processing, Cognitive Robotics, Multi-robot Cooperation.
Languages:
Macedonian (native), English (fluent), Serbian and Croatian (fluent), Bulgarian (fluent), German (conversational), Slovenian (reading and writing), Russian (reading only) and French (reading only).
Programming languages and technologies:
C++, Embedded C++, C#, NesC, Pascal & Delphi, Java, PL/SQL, PHP, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, postgreSQL, DB2, Cognos, Oracle Business Intelligence.