Prof. Mikhail Matveev, PhD | CV

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Education

  • 1964: Polytechnic School
  • 1971: MS in Nuclear Physics from the Faculty of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University

Scientific degrees

  • 1974: Research associate
  • 1984: Ph.D. in medicine (basic sciences in cardiology). Ph.D. thesis on “Optimized Criteria for Heart Diseases Detection Based on ECG and Clinical Data”
  • 1986: Associate Professor
  • 2006: Professor. Research thesis qualifying for a Professor’s degree on: “Engineering Approach to Cardiac Risk Evaluation”

Positions held

  • Since 2014: Physisict, APBSD Department, IBPhBME
  • 2010 – 2014: Deputy Director of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, BAS.
  • 2004 – 2011: Member of the General Assembly, BAS.
  • 2003 – 2010: Director of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering, BAS.
  • 2000 – 2003: President of General Assembly of Scientists, Centre of Biomedical Engineering, BAS.
  • 1994 – 2003: Associate Professor, Analysis and Processing of Biomedical Signals and Data Department, Centre of Biomedical Engineering, BAS.
  • 1988: Head of Technological Innovations Department, Presidium of the Medical Academy.
  • 1986 – 2012: Visiting Professor, Technical University of Sofia.
  • 1986 – 1994: Assoc Professor, Centre of Biomedical Engineering, MA.
  • 1979 – 1986: Research Assoc.,Centre of Biomedical Engineering, MA.
  • 1978 – 1979: Research Associate, Centre of Biology, BAS.
  • 1974 – 1978: Research Associate, Center of Biomedical Engineering, Ministry of Health.
  • 1972 – 1974: Head of Mathematical Modeling Department, Computing Center, Ministry of Industry.
  • 1970 – 1972: Programmer, Computing Center, Ministry of Industry.

Post-doctoral training

  • 1972: Postgraduate degree in Computing Mathematics, Main Computer Center, RAN, Moscow, Russia
  • 1972: Postgraduate degree in Computer Modeling, State Planning Committee, Sofia, Bulgaria

Teaching activities

  • 1986 – 2012: Lectures on “Expert systems in medicine”; “Information technologies in medicine”; “Processing of Biomedical Signals and Data”, Faculty of Electronics, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Supervision of graduate students

  • 1986 – 2022: 13 PhD and 6 MS students

Research scope

Biomedical engineering; medical microprocessor systems and devices; biomedical data and signal processing and analysis; basic sciences in cardiology; pattern recognition; medical decision support systems and medical decision making.

Research activity

  • Monographs and chapters in monographs: 3
  • Peer reviewed research papers: > 150
  • Participation in international scientific forums with reports and presentations > 60
  • Citations: > 400
  • Patents: 3

Projects

Principal Investigator or Investigator in more than 25 national and international research projects.

Implemented innovations

More than 60, including:

  • device for screening analysis of the heart activity in newborn;
  • ECG screening analyzer;
  • device for haemodynamic parameter computation by marker dilution;
  • microprocessor system for vectorcardiogram processing;
  • microprocessor analyzers of forced expiration function;
  • microprocessor analyzers of electroencephalograms – laboratory and clinical versions;
  • microprocessor electrocardiographs;
  • computer-aided central monitoring station;
  • high resolution wireless ECG and VCG data acquisition systems;
  • microcomputer expert systems in intensive care and for clinical examinations;
  • program packs for data and signal analysis;
  • program packs for decision support systems in medicine;
  • methods for evaluation of autonomic cardiac control;
  • method for assessment of the infarct size from high-resolution ECG;
  • screening models for cardiac risk evaluation in emergency abdominal surgery, etc.

Expertise

Member of the:

  • Technical Commission, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Academy;
  • Board on Expert Systems, National Council on Automation;
  • Educational Center, Ministry of Health;
  • Scientific Board, National Center for Health Information;
  • Scientific Board, Centre of Biomedical Engineering, BAS;
  • Council on Medical Science, Medical University, Sofia;
  • National Scientific Council on Electronics and Computer Technology at the High Testimonial Commission;
  • Coordination Council on “e-Health”, Ministry of Health;
  • Problem Council on Medical and Biological Investigations, BAS;
  • Department Council on Medical and Biological Investigations, BAS;
  • Central Attestation Commission of the BAS General Assembly;
  • Expert at the Ministry of Economy for evaluation of projects under Operational Program “Competitiveness”;
  • Expert of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency at the Council of Ministers;
  • BAS representative on the advisory board of the National High-Tech Center for the Transfer of New Knowledge and Technologies in Neurology and Psychiatry at UMHATNP “St. Naum”

Membership

  • European Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (ESCTAIC);
  • International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE);
  • American Heart Association (AHA);
  • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC);
  • Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA);
  • European Hearth Rhythm Association (EHRA);
  • European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR);
  • Bulgarian Society for Biomedical Physics and Engineering;
  • Union of the Physicists in Bulgaria;
  • Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians;
  • Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, Chairman of Section on Biomedical Engineering (up to 2022)

Editor and reviewer

  • Chief Editor of the International Journal “Bioautomation”;
  • Permanent reviewer for many scientific journals, including:
    • Physiological Measurement;
    • Physics in Medicine and Biology;
    • Measurement Science and Technology;
    • Inverse Problems;
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine;
    • World Journal of Emergency Surgery;
    • Biomedical Engineering On-Line;
    • International Journal on Bioautomation.
  • Reviewer for Granting Agencies, such as the Royal Society e-GAP (UK), FENS Forum (Austria), National Science Fund of Bulgaria, Council on Medical Science, Medical University, Sofia, Research and Development sector, Technical University, Sofia, etc.
  • Member of the Working Group of the Institute of Physics Publishing (UK) for nominating high quality papers published in IOP Journals during previous years.

Awards for scientific and applied research activity

  • 1975: Excellency Award of the Ministry of Health for the development of an ECG selector;
  • 1987: Honourable Inventor (from Ministry of Science and Technologies);
  • 1989: Diploma from the Organizing Committee of the First National Conference ‘Medical Cybernetics’.
  • 2006: Diploma for “Important Scientific Contribution to Cardiology” from the Program Committee, 10th National Congress of Cardiology, Sofia, Bulgaria;
  • 2006: Inclusion in the list of honorable contributors, referees and board members – Measurement Science and Technology “MOSAIC Project”, Institute of Physics Publishing (UK);
  • 2008: The Prize for Best Presentation at the 2008 Annual Conference of Computers in Cardiology;
  • 2008: Diploma and Prize for High Scientific Achievements from the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria;
  • 2015: Main prize Diskobolos 2015 in section “Health” for achievement: “System for ventilator-dependent critically ill patients” award of Serbian Union of ICT, Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, European Economic Chamber of Trade, Commerce and Industry, World Information Technology and Services Alliance, International Federation for Information Processing, European Association of Healthcare IT Managers;
  • 2021: Emeritus Fellow of the ESC (EFESC;
  • 2021: Emeritus Fellow of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria

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