Profile

I am from Bulgaria where I lived until I finished high school. I studied mathematics, informatics and English in school and I was very passionate about technology and computers. I also studied guitar and I played in concerts in Bulgaria and in other countries of Europe.

I then went to study in the university in Greece. I learned how to program and I was very interested in Artificial Intelligence. Then I decided to go to Belgium to continue my education, and now – here, in Ireland.

I work in Dublin City University as a post-doctoral researcher in Machine Translation. Machine Translation is the field of Artificial Intelligence that looks into making computers and computer programs translate between different languages. This is a very interesting topic for me and I love what I do because it involves a lot of new technologies and it requires me to learn more and more every day.

Before that I lived and studied in Belgium. I spent 6 years there learning about Artificial Intelligence and how to make systems that use logic to solve tasks. And before that I lived in Greece where I got to know computers and learned what I could do with them – how to solve tasks, how to help people in their every day routines, and so on.

When I go to the office, first thing that I do is to check my emails and respond to them. Usually, I have couple of meetings in a day which I go to and then continue with my duties. Because I work on different projects all the time I usually read a lot of articles so that I can learn about the work that has already been done on the subject. Then I write programs and run these programs to test whether they perform well.

I have lunch at around 13:00 and after that I continue with my schedule for the day. Sometimes, in order to keep my schedule organised, I write my tasks for the next day before I leave the office.