Associate Professor Institute for Parallel Processing - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl. 25A, Sofia 1113, BULGARIA Phone: +359 2 979 6639 Fax: +359 2 870 7273 E-mail: anet@parallel.bas.bg

• PhD in Computer Science, 1997, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
• MS in Computational Mathematics (with distinction), 1978, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

• Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Science:

• Florida State University, USA, 2001-2003, Visiting researcher

• Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
• Low Discrepancy Sequences and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
• Parallel Algorithms and Grid Applications
  
• Computational Linear Algebra
  

• 1998 – First Award of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Sciences for Computer Science research
• 1999 - NATO-NSF First Award in Computational Mathematics for 12 months postdoctoral research (spent at Florida State University with Prof. M. Mascagni, 1999-2000)
  

• South East European Research Area for eInfrastructures (SEERA-EI ), 2009-2012, coordinated by GRNET, Athens, Greece;
• Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe – III (EGEE-III), INFSO-RI-222667, 2008-2010, coordinated by CERN, Geneva;
• SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for Regional Science (SEE-GRID-SCI), RI-211338, 2008-2010, coordinated by GRNET, Greece;
• EGEE-II, Contract number INFSO-RI-031688, 2006-2008, Project coordinator: Dr. R. Jones, CERN, Geneva (NA2 Activity coordinator for SEE federation – Dr. A. Karaivanova)
• SEE-GRID2, Contract number 031775, 2006-2008, Project coordinator: Dr. Ognjen Prnjat, GRNET, Greece (WP4 representatives for IPP-BAS – Dr. Aneta Karaivanova)
• Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE), IST-2003-508833, 2004-2006, Project coordinator: Dr. R. Jones (Dr. Fabricio Gagliardi), CERN, Geneva (NA2 Activity Leader for Bulgaria: Dr. A. Karaivanova)
• South Eastern European Grid-Enabled eInfrastructure Development (SEE-GRID), RI-2002-002356, 2004-2006, Project leader: Dr. Nikos Vogiatzis, GRNET, Greece.
• Estia-Net, Opening Up Applied Sciences to Successful Women Careers, 110068-CP-1-2003-1-GR-ERASMUS-TN, 2004-2006, Project coordinator (IPP): Dr. A. Karaivanova
• Integrated Scientific Structures - Ways to better Quality Higher Education, TEMPUS Phare Compact Measures Project: CME 003090-97, 1998-1999, Coordinator: Prof. K. Vesselinov, TU-Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Study of Stability of Physical Systems Using Parallel Computers (STABLE), EU COPERNICUS Project CP 960237, 1997-1998, Coordinator: Prof. Bernard Philippe, IRISA-Rennes, France.
• Parallel computation of spectral portraits of matrices and application to system stability analysis (PORTRAIT), EU COPERNICUS Project CP 094682, 1995-1996, Coordinator: Prof. Bernard Philippe, IRISA-Rennes, France.

National Projects:

• Advanced Quasi-Monte Carlo Grid Computing – Framework, Libraries, Pilot Grid Applications, Contract No. DO02-146, 2009-2011, Project leader: A. Karaivanova
• Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Markov Chain Based Problems, Contract No. I-1405, 2004-2008, Project leader: A. Karaivanova

• 2009: Program Committee member of MIPRO/GVS 2009 (http://www.mipro.hr/egvs.html) and PPAM/LaSCoG (http://lascog09.info.uvt.ro); Co-organizer of the Special Session Grid&SEA (LSSC 2009)

• 2008, Member of the Program Committee of MCQMC 2008 (Montreal, Canada), PMAA 2008 (Neuchatel, Switzerland), GVS-Mipro 2008 (Opatija, Croatia)
  
• 2007, 3^rd Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids, Gdansk, Poland, Member of the Program Committee

• 2007, LSSC 2007, Organizer of the Workshop on Computational Grid and Large-Scale Problems (with Prof. T. Gurov and Prof. K. Skala)
• 2006, 5^th Int. conf. on NMA, Borovets, Bulgaria, Member of the Program Committee and Organizer of a special session on Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo for diverse applications

• 2004, ICCS2004, Krakow, Poland, Organizer of the Workshop on Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithms for Diverse Applications in a Distributed Setting (with Prof. V. Alexandrov, University of Reading)
• 2003, 4^th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlin, Germany, Organizer of the Special Session on Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods and Markov Chains (with Prof. M. Mascagni, FSU)
• 2003, 4^th International Conference on LSSC, Sozopol, Bulgaria, Organizer of the Special Session on MCQMCMs (with Prof. H. Kosina, University of Vienna)
• 2002, 5^th International Conference on NMA, Borovets, Bulgaria, Member of the Program Committee, and Organizer of the Minisymposium on MCQMCMs (with Dr. T. Gurov, CLPP-BAS)
• 2001, 3^rd International Conference on LSSC, Sozopol, Bulgaria, Organizer of the Special Session on Monte Carlo Methods (with Prof. St. Heinrich, University of Kaiserslautern)
• 1999, 2^nd IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, member of the Organizing Committee