The trainer

Iva Popova

Contact

• E-mail: iva.popova@sciscend.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ivapopova

Teaching experience

• 5 years as a teaching assistant at the Technical University of Sofia: "Programming Languages", "Discrete Mathematics", "Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence".
• 7+ years at leading private training centres: "Databases (MySQL)", "Front-End Development", "Python", "Machine Learning".
• More than 650 students have finished these courses successfully.
• Corporate courses for: A1 Bulgaria, Advanced Nutrients, Advent Group, BILLA Bulgaria, BORICA, CDS Bulgaria, Debt Collection Agency (DCA), DIGITALL, IBM Bulgaria, ICT Strypes, ISI Emerging Markets (EMIS), Javelin Group, KITT.bg, National Social Security Institute (NSSI), Software AG, TAL Engineering, UniCredit Bulbank, Vivacom, VMware.

Professional experience

• 7+ years as a software engineer (4 of them as a senior engineer and team lead) in international IT companies: Comptel (now part of Nokia), Internet Securities, Datamax, Experian.
• 6+ years as a researcher and consultant in an artificial intelligence start-up: sentiment analysis, ontologies, natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs).

Education

• Secondary school: the National Vocational High School of Computer Technologies and Systems, Pravets.
• Master of Engineering in Computer Systems, Technical University of Sofia.
• PhD student in Artificial Intelligence Systems, Technical University of Sofia.