Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Name Todor Vassilev Gurov
Nationality Bulgarian
Office Address Department of Scalable Computing and Applications with HPC Center
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl.25A
1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
Phone +359 2 979 63 43
Fax
E-mail gurov at parallel.bas.bg
Education Ph.D. in Comput. and Appl. Math., Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
M.Sc. in Mathematics (Mathematical Modelling), Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
Position Professor at IICT-BAS
Main Fields of Scientific Research (keywords) Statistical modeling of electron quantum kinetics in semiconductors;
Monte Carlo methods for partial differential equations and inverse matrix problems;
Monte Carlo algorithms using a simulation of branching stochastic processes;
Sequential and parallel random number generators;
Parallel Monte Carlo algorithms/ Realizations over parallel architectures;
HPC, Cloud and Grid computing
PhD Thesis Monte Carlo algorithms for some transport problems.
Honors
  • TRACS visitor at EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2 months (Oct - Nov, 2002).
  • Research Foundation CUNY Post-doctoral fellowship, Brooklyn College, USA, Nov 1999 - Nov 2001.
  • Scholarship, ID-IMAG (Informatics and Distribution lab. - Institut d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble), Grenoble, France, 6 months (Jan - Jun, 1995) and Nov, 1994 (APACHE project).
  • Scholarship, RWTH-Aachen, Germany, May, 1993 (TEMPUS project).