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Dr Dimitar Valchev

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  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Electronic/Electrical Engineering
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Engineering & Innovation
  • dimitar.valchev

Professional biography

Education

2008: PhD in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Signal Processing), Northeastern University, Boston, USA

2001: MEng in Computer Systems, Technical University of Sofia, campus Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1996: Technician in Industrial Electronics, Vocational High School for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Experience

After obtaining my doctoral degree in 2008, for eight years I was teaching communication and computer engineering modules at three universities and two colleges in Bulgaria. During that time, I also spent three half-year periods of research in terahertz technology at leading institutions around the world through competitive international fellowship schemes:

2014: Visiting researcher at the University of Adelaide, Australia

2015: Visiting researcher at Nagoya University, Japan

2016: Visiting assistant professor at the University of Rochester, USA

I joined the Open University as a lecturer in 2017.

Research interests

Communications and Signal Processing

Teaching interests

Electrical and Electronic Engineering:

Involvement in the module T212 Electronics: Sensing, logic and actuation, which illustrates electronic/electrical engineering at device level and is live from October 2017;

Preparation of the module T312 Electronics: Signal processing, control and communications, which illustrates electronic/electrical engineering at system level and is planned to be live from October 2019.

Publications

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of edible oils. (2017-06-28)
Dinovitser, Alex; Valchev, Dimitar G. and Abbott, Derek
Royal Society Open Science, 4, Article 170275(6)
Terahertz Signal Classification Based on Geometric Algebra (2016-11-01)
Zhou, Shengling; Valchev, Dimitar G.; Dinovitser, Alex; Chappell, James M.; Iqbal, Azhar; Ng, Brian W-H.; Kee, Tak W. and Abbott, Derek
IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 6(6) (pp. 793-802)
Dispersion-Independent Terahertz Classification Based on Geometric Algebra for Substance Detection (2016)
Zhou, S. L.; Valchev, D. G.; Dinovitser, A.; Chappell, J. M.; Iqbal, A.; Ng, B. W-H.; Kee, T. W. and Abbott, D.
In : 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz) (25-30 Sep 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark)

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