Occupation

Postdoc Researcher
Signal and Information Processing (SIP) Lab
Multimedia Signal Processing (MSP) Group
Delft University of Technology

Education

PhD in Acoustic Signal Processing
Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College London
Thesis (supervised by Dr. P. A. Naylor):
Blind Identification of Acoustic Systems and Enhancement of Reverberant Speech.

MEng (Hons) Computer Engineering
Dept. Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London
Thesis (supervised by Prof. M. Sandler and Prof. E. Izquierdo):
Estimating a Talker's Location in the Horizontal Plane.

Work experience

Postdoc Researcher (2012 - present)
Signal and Information Processing Lab
Delft University of Technology.

Research Associate (2007 - 2012)
Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research (CLEAR)
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Research Associate (2005-2007)
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.
Original research in Enhancement of Reverberant Speech for Telecommunication Applications under the direction of Dr. P. A. Naylor.
Laboratory Assistant (2000-2002)
Queen Mary, University of London
Development and maintenance of laboratory exercises and experiments for undergraduate courses.
Media Analyst (1999-2000)
Report International, London
Analysis of English and Swedish technology related media.

Professional activities

Peer reviewing
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Speech Communication
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Member of technical committees
2007 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
2009 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. (area chair in Speech Processing)
2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference, Aalborg, Denmark
Session chairing
Speech processing at the 2009 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.
Signal processing for speech intelligibility at the 2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference, Aalborg, Denmark. (special session organized by N. D. Gaubitch, M. Brookes, and P. A. Naylor)

Teaching experience

Lecture course
Digital Signal Processing
Teaching Assistant
Signals and Systems
Real-time DSP
Speech Processing

Awards

Award of International Travel Grant (2007)
from the Royal Academy of Engineering
Three-Year Research Bursary (2002)
Dept. Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London
Drapers Company Undergraduate Prize (2001&2002)
for outstanding academic achievement
Constance Maynard Prize (2000)
for outstanding academic achievement

Languages

English (Fluent)
Bulgarian (Fluent)
Swedish (Fluent)
Norwegian (Conversational)
German and Russian (Beginner)