Name	Ivan Tanev Tanev
Birthplace	Simeonovgrad, Bulgaria
Affiliations	Professor Department of Information Systems Design, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Miyakodani, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
Professional interests	Socio-informatics, Software Agents, Evolutionary Computations, Evolutionary Psychology, and Component Object-based Computing.
Degrees	(i) Dr.Eng. in Computer Science, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan, 2001; (ii) Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Saint-Petersburg State University of Electrical Engineering, Russia, 1993
Languages	Bulgarian (native), Russian, English and Japanese (intermediate); Object Pascal, C++, Java, JScript, XML, Prolog, Lisp, SQL and PL/SQL
Hobbies	Hiking, photography, chess, RC cars and planes. Interested also in racing cars (design and aerodynamics) and fighters (design, aerodynamics, and avionics).
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Apr. 1998 - Mar. 2001	Doctor of Engineering (2001) Department of Computer Science and System Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Mizumoto 27-1, Japan. Doctor thesis is about Metacomputer Implementation of Genetic Programming on Clusters.
Oct. 1989 - June 1993	Doctor of Philosophy (1993) Department of Computer Engineering, Saint Petersburg State University of Electrical Engineering, 5 Prof. Popov Street, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia. Doctor thesis is about Parallel Implementation of Prolog
Sep. 1982 - Feb. 1987	Master of Science in Computer Engineering (1987) Received with First Grade Honors (GPA 4.96 of max 5.00) Department of Computer Engineering, Leningrad Institute of Electrical Engineering, 5 Prof. Popov Street, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia. Master thesis is about Microprogrammed LISP-interpreter as a Coprocessor Board for PC
Sep. 1981 - June 1982	Master Course Department of Computer Engineering, Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria. The course was continued at the Department of Computer Engineering, Leningrad Institute of Electrical Engineering, 5 Prof. Popov Street, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia.

April 2013 - Currently	Professor Department of Information Systems Design, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Miyakodani, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
April 2007 - March 2013	Associate Professor Department of Information Systems Design, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Miyakodani, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
April 2004 - March 2007	Lecturer Department of Information Systems Design, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Miyakodani, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
April 2004 - March 2006	Visiting Researcher ATR Network Informatics Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, "Keihanna Science City", Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
July 2002 - March 2004	Senior Researcher ATR Human Information Science Laboratories 2-2-2 Hikaridai, "Keihanna Science City", Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
Apr. 2001 - June 2002	Software Developer Synthetic Planning Industry Co.Ltd. (SPI) HK Building 2F, 2-21-10 Nishiogikubo, Suginami, Tokyo 167-0053, Japan
Jan.1994 - March 1997	System Administrator and Software Developer National Electricity Company, Thermal Power Plant Maritsa East 3, Village Mednikarovo, Region Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Feb.1988 - Sep. 1989	Researcher Central Institute of Computer Engineering and Technology, 7th km Tsarigradsko Shose, Sofia, Bulgaria
Apr.1987 - Sep.1987	Researcher International Space Research Center, Space Research Institute of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Aiazmo Park, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

• Ranked #14 in the world among the authors on genetic programming. Reference: GP Bibliography index page

• Winner of the Best Paper Award at the The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, Varna, Bulgaria (2018)
for I.Tanev, M. Georgiev, K. Shimohara and T. Ray, Evolving a Team of Asymmetric Predator Agents That Do Not Compute in Predator-prey Pursuit Problem

• Winner of the computer-controlled car racing competition at the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK (2005)

• Best Paper Award Nomination at the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK (2005)
for I.Tanev, M.Joachimczak, H.Hemmi and K.Shimohara, Evolution of the Driving Styles of Anticipatory Agent Remotely Operating a Scaled Model of Racing Car

• Best Paper Award Nomination at the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2005), Lausanne, Switzerland (2005)
for I.Tanev, Incorporating Learning Probabilistic Context-sensitive Grammar in Genetic Programming for Efficient Evolution and Adaptation of Snakebot

• Best Paper Award Nomination at the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Portland, Oregon, USA (2004)
for I.Tanev, T.Ray and A.Buller, Evolutionary Design, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Limbless Wheelless Robot

• Research Scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Monbusho), Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

• Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 7th National Conference on Modern Tendencies in Applied and Fundamental Sciences, Bulgarian Union of Scientists, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (1996)
for I.Tanev, Mutual Exclusion Mechanism for Efficient File Sharing in a Local Area Network Environment

• Postgraduate Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence by the Bulgarian Association "Electronics", Sofia, Bulgaria (1988)

• Master of Science Diploma received with First Grade Honors, Grade Points Average of 4.96 (max: 5.00). Leningrad Institute of Electrical Engineering, Leningrad, Russia (1987)

• Winner of the Olympiad in Computer Science and Engineering at the Leningrad Institute of Electrical Engineering, Leningrad, Russia (1985)

• Specialized Mathematical High School Graduated with Honors, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (1981)