University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria

Prof. Dr. Dimiter Velev is with the Department of Informatics at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Bulgaria, and the Director of the Science Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction at UNWE. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Electro-Engineering from the Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Complexes, Systems and Networks from the Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Prof. Velev is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), in which he is the Chair of Technical Committee #5 – Information Technology Applications, and the Chair of the IFIP Domain Committee on Quantum Computing. His main areas of academic interest are ICT, Information Systems for Disaster Management, AI, Cybersecurity, VR, Quantum Computing. Prof. Velev is a regular speaker at conferences in Asia and Europe.