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SYLVIA T. KOUYOUMDJIEVA
+ 46 704 041089 |[email protected] | http://people.kth.se/~stkou
EDUCATION
2009– today
PhD candidate at Laboratory for Communication Networks
KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Licentiate Thesis (2012): Opportunistic Content Distribution: A System Design Approach
2007 – 2009
MSc. Network Services and Systems
KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden
Thesis: Optimizing Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Biased Neighbour Selection
(In collaboration with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden)
2002 – 2006
BSc. Telecommunications, summa cum laude (5.8/6.0)
Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Thesis: Quality of Service in Next Generation Networks
WORK EXPERIENCE
2000–today
Technical Editor-in-Chief, Print and Online
ZeST Press, Publishing House, Sofia, Bulgaria
http://www.zest-press.com
2014–today
Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer
Kupi Knigi, Online Bookstore, Sofia, Bulgaria
http://www.kupiknigi.com
GRANTS & AWARDS
2015
2015
2014
2010
2007
2007
Recipient of IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant for IEEE WCNC 2015 (IEEE Communication Society)
Recipient of KAW Travel Grant for IEEE WCNC 2015 (Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Foundation, Jubilee
appropriation)
Recipient of KTH Travel Grant for IEEE/IFIP WONS 2014 (The Styffe Foundation)
Best Paper Award for the paper “Does Mobility Matter?”presented at the 7th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on
Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)
Recipient of INTRACOM Travel Grant & Scholarship for attendance of the Summer School on “Recent
Advances in Telecommunications, Networking and Distributed Computing Systems” at Athens Information
Technology (AIT), Centre of Excellence for Research and Education
Recipient of Siemens AG Scholarship for a student project on “Applications of WiMAX Deployments”
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ACM MSWiM Demos/Tools Shadow Committee Member, Toronto, Canada, 2014
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC); IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
(TNSM); IFIP Networking 2014; IFIP Networking 2015
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
Aug 2015
Technical and business coach in the second EIT Digital (previously ICT Labs) Summer School on Future
Networking Solutions held in Stockholm Sweden, which brought together 45 international students.
http://iot2015stockholm.wordpress.com/
Aug 2014
Technical and business coach in the first EIT ICT Labs Summer School on Internet of Things held in
Stockholm, Sweden which brought together 28 international students.
http://iot2014stockholm.wordpress.com/
Jul 2010
Co-organizer of a summer course on Distributed Computing in cooperation with the Board of European
Students of Technology (BEST) and KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology; the summer school was attended by
25 international students.
2007–2010
Co-founder and instructor at KTH Salsa, a club for promoting healthy lifestyle through dancing.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software
Languages
Matlab, OMNeT++, MS Office, LATEX
Java (Android), C/C++, Python, HTML/CSS, PHP
PERSONAL SKILLS
Languages
Bulgarian (native); English (fluent); Swedish (intermediate); Spanish (basic); Greek (basic)
REFERENCES
References and letters of recommendation available upon request.
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APPENDIX 1: LIST
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
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Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Impact of Duty Cycling on Opportunistic Communication, in Mobile
Computing, IEEE Transactions on, accepted for publication
2. Olafur Helgason, Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Opportunistic Communication and Human Mobility, in
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.13, no.7, pp.1597-1610, July 2014
Conference Papers
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Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Energy-Aware Opportunistic Mobile Data Offloading for Users in Urban
Environments,
in Proc. IFIP Networking, Toulouse, France, May 2015
Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, The Virtue of Selfishness: Device Perspective on Mobile Data Offloading,
in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, USA, March
2015
Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Opportunistic Networks with Energy Constraints,
in Proc. 10th Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW), Västerås, Sweden, June 2014
Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Energy Savings in Opportunistic Networks,
in Proc. 11th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS),
Obergurgl, Austria, April 2014
Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Sanpetch Chupisanyarote, Olafur Helgason, Gunnar Karlsson, Caching Strategies in
Opportunistic Networks,
in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM),
Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC) workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2012
Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Olafur Helgason, Emre A. Yavuz, Gunnar Karlsson, Evaluating an Energy-efficient Radio
Architecture for Opportunistic Communication,
in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks &
Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets) workshop, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2012
Olafur Helgason, Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Enabling Multiple Controllable Radios in OMNeT nodes,
in Proc. 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools),
OMNeT workshop, Barcelona, Spain, March 2011
Olafur R. Helgason, Emre A. Yavuz, Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Ljubica Pajevic, Gunnar Karlsson, A Mobile Peerto-Peer System for Opportunistic Content-Centric Networking,
in Proc. 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds
(MobiHeld), New Delhi, India, September 2010
Olafur Helgason, Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Gunnar Karlsson, Does Mobility Matter?,
in Proc. 7th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS),
Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, February 2010. Best paper award.
Software Demonstrations
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Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Emre A. Yavuz, Olafur R. Helgason, Ljubica Pajevic, Gunnar Karlsson, Opportunistic
Content-Centric Networking: The Conference Case Demo,
demonstration at IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 2011
Olafur R. Helgason, Emre A. Yavuz, Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Ljubica Pajevic, Gunnar Karlsson, Demonstrating a
Mobile Peer-to-Peer System for Opportunistic Content-Centric Networking ,
demonstration at MobiHeld 2010, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop, New Delhi, India, September 2010
Posters
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Sanpetch Chupisanyarote, Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Olafur Helgason, Gunnar Karlsson,
Caching in Opportunistic Networks with Churn,
in Proc. 9th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS),
Courmayeur, Italy, January 2012
Sylvia Kouyoumdjieva, Emre A. Yavuz, Olafur R. Helgason, Ljubica Pajevic, Gunnar Karlsson,
Opportunistic Content-Centric Networking: The Conference Case Demo,
Swedish Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (ADHOC), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2011
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