Nikolay Chudomirov Netov

Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Chudomirov Netov serves as Head of the Department of Statistics and Econometrics at Sofia University's Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, with over fifteen years of experience in international scientific, applied, and educational projects across global collaborations.

His research spans critical interdisciplinary domains:

• Financial Risk Modeling (Value at Risk, Black-Scholes algorithms, stock market forecasting)
• Transportation Analytics (telecom data-driven public transport optimization, passenger flow modeling)
• Public Policy & Digitalization (e-government services, citizen sentiment analysis using transformer models)
• Public Health (vaccination patterns, screen time evaluation, autoimmune disease modeling)

Recent publications reveal accelerating convergence of advanced computational techniques with societal challenges, particularly through:

• Transformer-based NLP for granular public sentiment/emotion analysis in government domains
• Anonymized telecommunications data applications for sustainable urban mobility solutions
• Hybrid mathematical-statistical frameworks for financial and biological systems

Scientific recognition includes:

• Annual award for "Career in IT" project (2014)
• Responsible Business Award in "Investor in Knowledge" category (2015)

Netov actively bridges academia-business divides through project leadership, notably as Board Director of FEBA's Alumni Association (Bulgaria's largest with 7,000+ members). His "Career in IT" initiative exemplifies successful NGO-business-academia partnerships, while current research focuses on data-driven public service optimization and financial risk modeling. Departmental leadership combines with international project coordination to advance Sofia University's research profile in computational social sciences.