Dr. Dimitar Kazakov
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York
Heslington, York YO10 5GH, UK
tel. +44 1904 32 5676, kazakov@cs.york.ac.uk
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kazakov/
| Education | |
| 1993-2000 | Ph.D. in Biocybernetics and Artificial Intelligence. Czech Technical University of Prague. Ph.D. thesis: Natural Language Processing Applications of Machine Learning. Supervisor: Prof. Olga Stepankova. |
| 1988-1993 | Czech Technical University of Prague. M.Sc. (Engineer degree) in Technical Cybernetics. Master's thesis: Natural Language Interface Module. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Olga Stepankova/Dr Marta Vavrova. |
| 1987-1988 | Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 1981-1985 | Diploma from the Secondary School of Mathematics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. |
| Professional Experience | |
| 2009- | Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of York. |
| 1999-2009 | Lecturer in Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, University of York. |
| 1998-1999 | Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of York. |
| Sept. 1995-
Feb. 1996 |
Six-month project at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications - Paris: Inducing Natural Language Parsers from Treebanks. Supervisor: Dr Martin Rajman. |
| May 1994 -
July 1994 |
Research in the field of natural language processing
at II Universita di Roma Tor Vergata: Development of Morpho-lexical Tools. Supervisor: Prof. M.T.Pazienza. |
| Teaching | Implementation of Programming Languages (1999/2000 - 2000/01), Symbolic Learning of Language (2000/01 - 2001/02), Lexical and Syntax Analysis (2001/02 - 2003/04), Adaptive and Learning Agents (2003/04 - present), Principles of Programming (2004/05). |
| ACAI-01 Summer School Tutorial on Machine Learning and ILP for Multi-Agent Systems (with Daniel Kudenko), Prague, 2001. | |
| ECAI-02 Summer School Tutorial on Machine Learning for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (with Daniel Kudenko), Lyon, 2002. | |
| ESSLLI-04 Summer School Tutorial on Symbolic Learning of Language (with James Cussens), Nancy, 2004. [reader | additional material ] | |
| Graduate Supervision | Current PhD students: Amer Alzaidi (since 2007), Ahmad Shahid (since 2007), Matthew Butler (since 2009). Completed PhD supervisions: Mark Bartlett, Heather Turner (co-supervision with Susan Stepney), Enda Ridge (co-supervision with Daniel Kudenko), Rayner Alfred. |
| Publications | See http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kazakov/my-publications.html | Involvement |
| 2004-2007 | Vice-Chair of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Committee. |
| 2002-present | Co-chair/steering committee member of the Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), see http://www.aamas.net. |
| Reviewing | ECML, AAMAS Symposium, Connection Science J., Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI), Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence. |
| Languages | Fluency in Bulgarian, Czech, English and French; basic spoken Spanish; passive knowledge of Russian. |
Last update: 4 Nov 2010