Short Biography:
- 1991 – 1996: Master of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy, Technical University – Sofia.
2008 -2009: Thracian University – Stara Zagora.
01.01.2025 – until now: Part-time PhD student at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria).
01.04.2025 – until now: Researcher in the VIBraTE project at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria).
She graduated in Electronics and Automation at TU-Sofia, with a specialization in Microprocessor Systems and Software; her next specialization is Informatics and Information Technologies at Thracian University – St. Zagora.
On January 1 2025, she joined the Neurotechnology group of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimiter Prodanov from IICT-BAS (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) to work on the VIBraTE project.
She has gained extensive experience in the field of school education as a teacher of informatics and information technologies; for over ten years she was the Head of the ICT department at a school. From 01.10.2004 – 01.10.2008 she worked as a part-time assistant at Free University of Burgas. In 2019 until now she is an external inspector at the National Inspectorate of Education – Sofia in the team of Dr. Anelia Andreeva.
Research Profile
Irina Kancheva (0009-0000-1853-0091) – ORCID
Selected Publications
1. eCF Paper Id: ICEST-2025-4495 Pub. Title: 2025 60th International Scientific Conference on
Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies (ICEST’25); Article Title:
Study of mental workload when solving an individual cognitive task using part of a hybrid system
for non-invasive brain-computer interface; Author(s): Hristo I. Hristov, Kalin L. Dimitrov, Irina
A. Kancheva, Teodor A. Vakarelsky.
2. ISSN:1314-0787 XI Bulgarian national committee of illumination, proceedings. Possibilities
for using energy efficient light sources for home lighting. BulLight 2014, Sozopol, Bulgaria;
Възможности за използване на енергоефективни източници на светлина за битово
осветление. Blagoi Mechkov, Vera Mechkova, Irina Kancheva; www.bnci.eu.
3. ISBN:978-954-9370-87-4 Projective education – method of activating modern school practice
in the economic computing classes – 11th grade. Science and education 2011, BFU, Burgas,
Bulgaria; Andon Lazarov, Irina Kancheva.
4. ISBN:978-954-9370-87-4 The transition from the secondary school to the university. Science
and education 2011, BFU, Burgas, Bulgaria; Irina Kancheva, Tonka Karidova, Galina Valkanova.
5. ISBN:978-954-9370-63-8 Икономика на знанието – възможности и предизвикателства ред
висшето образование. Научна конференция с международно участие – сборник доклади, том
III, 2008, БСУ; Математически модел на процесите в DC-DC конвертор; И. Кънчева.
6. ISSN:1311-221-X БСУ, том XVII Годишник, 2007; Динамичен системен анализ на DC-DC
конвертор; Проф. А. Лазаров, И. Кънчева.