Bulgarian roboticists

I maintain a list of active Bulgarian researchers in robotics and machine learning:

  • Petar Kormushev is a Team Leader (equivalent to U.S. Assistant Professor) at Italian Institute of Technology, working on robot learning by imitation and reinforcement learning.
  • Dragomir N. Nenchev is a professor at Tokyo City University, working on motion/force control, space robots, humanoid robots, and service robots.
  • Lubomir Lilov is a professor at Sofia University, heading the master’s program on Mechatronics and Robotics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
  • Rosen Diankov is the author of OpenRAVE robotics platform for manipulation planning, etc.
  • Alexander Stoytchev is a professor at Iowa State University. He constructed a dual-arm Barrett WAM robot and is researching in developmental robotics.
  • Jivko Sinapov is a PhD student of prof. Alexander Stoytchev.
  • Alexander A. Petrov is an assistant professor at Ohio State University.
  • Ivan Kalaykov is a professor at Örebro University.
  • Dimitar N. Dimitrov is a post-doc at Örebro University.
  • Todor Stoyanov is a PhD student at Örebro University.
  • Stanimir Dragiev is a PhD student at CoR-Lab / TU Berlin.
  • Nikolay Jetchev is a PhD student at TU Berlin.
  • Kostadin G. Kostadinov is a professor in Mechatronics & Robotics in “Mechatronic Systems” Department of BAS.
  • Krasimir D. Kolarov was teaching robotics at Stanford University, now works at Apple Inc.
  • Anelia Angelova finished her PhD at California Institute of Technology in 2007, now works at Google.
  • Nayden Chivarov and Nedko Shivarov are with the Service Robots group at the Central Laboratory of Mechatronics and Instrumentation at BAS, working on SRS FP7 project.
  • Boicho Kokinov is an associate professor at New Bulgarian University. His work is mostly on cognitive science and not robotics.
  • Petko Kiriazov is an associate professor at Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
  • Kiril Kiryazov is a PhD student at University of Skövde, Sweden.
  • Nikolay Stefanov is doing research at TUM in Germany.
  • Emanuel/Emo Todorov is an associate professor at University of Washington.
  • Vladimir Zamanov is teaching robotics at Technical University of Sofia.
  • Ivan Dryanovski is a PhD student at CCNY (City College of New York), doing research on 3D SLAM and Micro Air Vehicle Navigation.
  • Dragomir Anguelov was a PhD student at Stanford University, collaborating with prof. Sebastian Thrun on computer vision for robots. Now he is working at Google in Mountain View.
  • Dimitar Ivanov Chakarov is an associate professor at the Mechatronic Systems dept. of BAS in Bulgaria.
  • Evtim Venets Zahariev is an associate professor and head of the department of Dynamics and optimization of controlled mechanical systems at BAS in Bulgaria.
  • Andrey Popov is at Hamburg University of Technology, doing research on UAV robots (esp. quadrocopters and H-infinity controllers).
  • Marin Kobilarov is a post-doc in control and dynamical systems at Caltech, doing research on motion planning and control.
  • Bojan Jakimovski is the CEO of Bionics4Robotics, which is a robotics- and AI- related company in Munich, Germany.
  • Roko Tschakarow works at SCHUNK as a Business Unit Manager System Solutions Mechatronics. His work is on building lightweight and modular robots.

If you are an active Bulgarian researcher in robotics I will be happy if you contact me, so that I can add you to this list.


List of other Bulgarian robotics enthusiasts and hobbyists:


List of robotics related events and websites in Bulgaria:


Last updated: February 20th, 2012