Камен Велев

HOME ADDRESS: 12, Arch. Milanov Str., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

OFFICE ADDRESS: University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8, bld. Kliment Ohridski, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: velev@uctm.edu; k_velev@yahoo.com
DATE OF BIRTH: January 9, 1942

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

MARITAL STATUS: Married

EDUCATION: Secondary school, Sofia, 1959

Diploma of Electrical Engineering,

Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, 1967

Diploma of PhD, Moscow Institute of Energy, 1973

Diploma of Dr.Sc, 1986

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor in Automatic Control, 1971-1980

Associate Professor in Automatic Control, 1981-1989

Professor in Automatic Control, 1989-

OTHER POSITIONS:

Vice-Dean for foreign students at Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (HICT), Sofia 1987-1989
Head of the section „Software in Quality Improvement“ at the „Bulgarian Institute of Quality“-Sofia, 1989-1991

Head of the Department of Automation at HICT, 1991-1993

Rector of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM), Sofia, 1993-2003

Member of the National Accreditation Council, 1996-1999

President of Bulgarian Rectors’ Council, 1998-2003

Member of Higher Attestation Commission, 2003 – 2006

Deputy Minister of Education and Science, 2003 – 2005 President of the National Science Fund, 2004 – 2006

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Applied Statistics; Identification and System Parameter Estimation; Adaptive Control; CAD of Control Systems.

ACADEMIC VISITOR:

Higher Technical School Merseburg, Germany, 1981

Wroclaw Polytechnic, Poland, 1988

Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, 1989, 1992

University of Paris-Sud France , 1992

University of Udine, Italy, 1993

University of California – Santa Barbara, USA, 1995

University of Maryland, USA, 1995

Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, 1996

LANGUAGES:

English, French, Russian

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Expert of the evaluation of TEMPUS projects, Brussels, 1991

Contact person of TEMPUS JEP-2538, 1991-1994

Contractor of ERASMUS Institutional Contract for UCTM, 1999-2004

Member of the Board of the Administrative Council of the Agency of Francophone Universities (AUF), 2001- 2005

Coordinator of ERASMUS project on curriculum development in chemical engineering, 2001-2004

Member of the Board of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (Council of Europe), 2002 – 2006

Vice-president of the Regional Commission of Experts for South-East Europe (AUF), 2002 – 2007

Member of the Board and Chair of the Evaluation Commission of the Scientific Council of the Agency of Francophone Universities (AUF), 2006 –

President of the Regional Commission of Experts for South-East Europe (AUF), 2007 –

PUBLICATIONS:

11 books and more than 100 papers in the fields of research interests