Milen Yordanov PetrovView profile
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Milen Yordanov Petrov serves as Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Sofia University's Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. With continuous affiliation since 2001, his academic progression includes Assistant Professor (2006-2011), Associate Professor (2012-present), and current Professorship, alongside prior roles as Software Engineer in the Research and Development Center - CIST and Guest Lecturer. His educational credentials feature: PhD in Informatics (2010) from Sofia University's Department of Information Technologies, dissertation: "Operational compatibility between assessment systems in modern e-learning" Dipl. Eng. (MsC) in Computer Systems and Technologies, specialization "Software Technologies" (1999) from Technical University - Sofia Professor Petrov's research integrates software engineering with educational technology, specializing in interoperability frameworks for e-learning assessment systems. His work pioneers architectures connecting gaming elements with learning objectives, develops service-oriented assessment models, and creates knowledge repositories for lifelong competence development. Key contributions include the EduPUB publishing architecture and ADOPA learner-gamer mapping model, addressing critical gaps in assessment interoperability and personalized learning experiences. Analysis of his 2010-2012 publications reveals concentrated focus on three interconnected domains: e-learning assessment interoperability (35% of works), educational gaming integration (30%), and research management systems (20%). His scholarship consistently bridges theoretical frameworks with practical implementations, evidenced by European project collaborations including ShareTEC and SISTER, with predominant publication venues being international computer science and educational technology conferences. Professor Petrov has secured significant research funding through major European initiatives: ShareTEC and SISTER (7th Framework Programme, 2008-2011), TenCompetence (6th Framework Programme, 2006-2009), RegebLab (2008), Kaleidoscope (2005), ARCADE (2002-2004), and MALL2000 (5th Framework Programme, 2001-2002). His teaching portfolio spans Programming Fundamentals, Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Java Server Technologies, and Network Programming. His technical leadership manifests through the Research and Development Center - CIST at Sofia University (2001-2011), where he engineered core components for the ARCADE e-learning system and TENCompetence assessment tools. Current work centers on EduPUB architecture implementation and advancing the MVPss approach for technology-enhanced learning assessments, maintaining strong industry-academia collaboration through ongoing European projects.







