• Dr.Sci in Mathematics  Humboldt University, Berlin , Germany, 2006
• PhD in Mathematics  Humboldt University, Berlin , Germany, 1989
• MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science Humboldt University, Berlin , Germany, 1982

• Convex Analysis and Optimization
• Stochastic Optimization
• Mathematical Models of Risk
• Statistical inference of stochastic optimization
• Numerical Techniques

 ·          Optimization of Stochastic Systems: stochastic optimization models with stochastic dominance constraints and risk functions; optimization models with probabilistic constraints; stability and sensitivity of stochastic optimization problems; decomposition methods for stochastic optimization problems

·          Nonlinear Optimization: composite semi-infinite optimization problems.

·          Convex Analysis: Steiner center for convex sets; differentiability of the metric projection onto moving convex sets; sets determined by constraints on distribution functions

.·          Set-Valued Analysis: selections of set-valued mappings in particular mappings that appear in stochastic optimization.

 ·          Vector Optimization: new concepts of e-efficiency and level sets of abstract optimization problems, which are applied to obtain various versions of variational principles, and to establish well-posedness of vector optimization problems.

·          Parametric Optimization: optimization problems whose data are smooth functions of a parameter; singularity theory of the stationary solutions to the parametric problems; regularity as a generic property; path-following methods

·          Statistical Analysis: delta theorems of first and higher order for random sets in infinite dimensional spaces and their selections; statistical tests for stochastic dominance; estimation of measures of risk and Lorenz functions.

·          Networks: efficient approach to evaluating network performance under uncertain load

Frequent reviewer and panelist for NSF and Department of Energy

Service and Membership In Professional Organizations

• Guest-Editor-in-Chief of Annals of OR and SIAM Journal on Optimization 
• Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Optimization and a member of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and a member of the American Mathematical Society
• Past member of the Stochastic Programming Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society
• Member of SIAM, AMS and the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians

• 2007 - present
  Professor, Department Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey  
• 2000 -2006
  Associate Professor, Department Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
• 1999 - 2000
  Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
• 1997 - 1999
  Visiting Scholar, RUTCOR, Rutgers Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• 1994 - 1997
  Research Scholar, Institute of Mathematics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• 1982 - 1994
  Research Scholar, Department of Operations Research, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (On leave)