site.btaBulgarian Academician Elected IEEE Fellow

Effective January 1, 2024, Academician Krassimir Atanassov of Bulgaria was elevated to IEEE Fellow grade for contributions to neural network for optimization and control, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said in a press release.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. "The grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors to a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest," the Institute explained.

Every year, after a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of members for elevation to that grade. Less than 0.1% of the voting members are selected annually for such elevation.

Krassimir Atanassov was born in Burgas in 1954. He was elected corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2012 and academician (full member) in 2021. He is an Honorary Fellow of the KvB Institute of Technology, Sydney (since 2004), a member of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians (since 1979), of the American Mathematics Society (since 1989), of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (since 2006), and of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (since 2011). He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals.

For more than ten years, Prof. Atanassov has been part of the Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov Burgas State University's Department of Computer Systems and Technologies and of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory.

Stanford University included the Bulgarian in its 2020 list of World Top 2% Scientists.