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Avram Eskenazi, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus |
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Personal Records
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| Full Name |
Avram Mois Eskenazi
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| Date of Birth |
14.05.1946
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| Telephone |
++359 2 979 2873
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| Email |
eskenazi@math.bas.bg |
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Education
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| 1964-1969 |
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Sofia |
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Academic qualifications
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| 1969 |
MSc, Faculty of Mathematics, University of
Sofia
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| 1978 |
PhD in Computer Science, University of Sofia,
Thesis: "Computer assisted test generation" |
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Languages
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| English |
Good
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| French |
Good
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| Russian |
Good
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| German |
Good |
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Professional record
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| 1969-1983-2010 |
Researcher and Senior Researcher, Institute of Mathematics and
Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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| 1985-2012 |
Head, Software Engineering Dept. with the same
organization
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| 1999-present |
Professor, University of Economics, Varna (part
time)
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| 2014-present |
Professor, associate member of IMI
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Participation in projects
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| 1986-1988 |
Intl. project with the Institute of Informatics
Problems, Moscow, on new software technologies (head of the Bulgarian staff)
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| 1986-1990 |
UNESCO project Bul/003 on computer assisted
education (head of subproject)
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| 1987-1998 |
Four projects funded by the Ministry of
Education and Science on software processes, software marketing, software
quality - evaluation and assurance (head of the staff)
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| 1992-1994 |
Payroll software development project with Val
Informatique (France) (head of the staff)
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| 1993-1997 |
Research and software development projects with
Dornier (Germany) on CAL and software development technology (head of the
staff)
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| 1997 |
Development of the Bulgarian Strategy for
Information and Communication Technologies in Secondary Education (head of
the staff)
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| 1998 |
Development of the Bulgarian Strategy for the
Information Society (member of the staff)
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| 1997-2000 |
Joint project with the Faculty of Management,
University of Tel Aviv - Evaluation of information systems and their
development technologies (head of the Bulgarian staff)
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| 2000-2003 |
"Multiversum" - SOCRATES Comenius 3.1 No.
87522-CP-1-2000-1-IT intl. research project "Multimedia as an
epistemological resource: towards multifaceted rather than linear knowledge"
(coordinator for one of both Bulgarian partners)
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| 2002-2003 |
EC IST 34488 eXPERT on Application of the
eXPERT Approach (XP + PSP) in SME (member of the staff)
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| 2003-2006 |
Joint project with the Faculty of Management, University of
Tel Aviv - Development of information systems by means of advanced
technologies (head of the Bulgarian staff)
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| 2005-2007 |
EU Erasmus 114046-CP-1-2004-1-BG ETN DEC – Head, Software
Engineering expert group
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| 2005-2007 |
EU Project 027287 – SSA : ELOST
e-Government for LOw Socio-economic sTatus groups – Bulgarian coordinator
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| 2006-2011 |
Joint project with the Faculty of Management,
University of Tel Aviv – Evaluation and Selection of Complex Software
Systems (head of the Bulgarian staff)
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| 2008-2010 |
TRICE 142399-LLP-1-2008-1-BG-ERASMUS-ENW -
Teaching, Research, Innovation in Computing Education
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| 2010-2013 |
Doctoral students from industry,
a project funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund
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| 2011-2014 |
Joint project with
the University of Tel Aviv –High Level Semantic Analysis of Bulgarian and Israel Collections
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Teaching activities
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| 1972-1989 |
University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Major
courses:
Introduction to computer science, Data structures and organization, Computer
assisted learning, Software engineeringg
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| 1992-1997 |
International University, Sofia
Major courses:
Data structures and organization, Software engineering, Advanced software
engineering
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| 1997-present |
University of Economics, Varna
Major courses:
Software Engineering, E-Commerce, Extreme Programming
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2002-2004,
2010-present |
New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Major courses: IT Project Management,
Software Engineering, E-Commerce, Extreme Programming
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| 2003-2015 |
Varna Free University
Major courses:
Software Engineering
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Other positions and activities:
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| 1986-2012 |
Bulgarian representative to IFIP TC 2 on
Software
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| 1993-present |
Member of the Council of ACMBUL (Bulgarian
chapter of ACM)
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| 1995-1999 |
Bulgarian representative to the UNESCO Program
of Informatics
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| 1998-present |
Member of the Council of the International
Foundation "St Cyrillus and St Methodius"
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| 1999-present |
Member of ACM, since 2009 - Senior Member
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| 2001-present |
Chairman of the Auditing Council of the
International Foundation "St Cyrillus and St Methodius"
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| 2003-2007 |
Member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO
Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Moscow
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| 2006-present |
Publishing editor of Serdica Journal of
Computing
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1991-1999,
2011-2012
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Member of the General Assembly of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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| 2011-present |
Chairman of the Advisory Council on Information and
Communication Sciences and Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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| 2012-present |
Member of the Jury of the President’s “John Atanasov” award
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Recent publications (total
number: 84)
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E. Delinov, A. Eskenazi, An Approach for a More Objective Evaluation of Practical Projects Used in the Training Process, Serdica Journal of Computing, vol.8, No.4, 2014 M. Galabova, A. Eskenazi, An attempt to apply Lean principles and practices to Scrum, Proc. of 9th Annual Intl. Conf. on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science 29 June - 2 July 2013, Fulda/Würzburg, Germany, p.33-36. A. Eskenazi, Business Software or Software Business, invited talk, Mathematics and Mathematical Education, Proc. of the 41th Conf. of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, 2012, p.83-92 I. Pavlova, D. Petrova-Antonova, A. Eskenazi, S. Ilieva, A. Dimov, An Analysis and Forecast of Software and Services Research in Bulgaria – Comparing the Situation Two Years Later, Proc. S3T Intl. conference, Burgas, 1-2 September 2011, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer 101, 2011, p.103-110 N.Todorov, A.Eskenazi, Specifics in applying agile software methodologies in portal solutions, Serdica Journal of Computing, vol.5, No.1, 2011 (ISSN 1312-6555), p.65-78 S. Ilieva, A. Eskenazi, A. Dimov, I. Pavlova, An Analysis and Forecast of Software and Services Research in Bulgaria, Serdica Journal of Computing (ISSN 1312-6555), vol.4, No.2, 2010, p.133-158 Ts. Kovacheva, A.Eskenazi, Optimizing Formalized Processes for Software Development by Adapting the Practices of Agile Methodologies. Proc. of Intl. Conf. Automatics and Informatics’09, Sofia, 2009 А.Ескенази, Електронното правителство - един специфичен проблем на ползването му. Сборник доклади от межд. конф."Информационни технологии в управлнието и бизнеса", Варна, 2009, с.38-45
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