George Mengov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
June, 2010
Born 1966, Sofia, Bulgaria
Education
2001 Ph.D. in Cybernetics, Technical University of Sofia,
Thesis: “Neural networks for analysis and prediction in organizational
behaviour: A study with empirical data from the industry”
1991 M.Sc., Technical University of Sofia
1986 Obligatory Military Service, Junior Lieutenant
1984 First English Language High School, Sofia
1979 Primary and Secondary School No 125, Sofia
Work Experience
2010 – Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Econometrics
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
2005 – 2010 Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Econometrics
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
2001 – 2005 Research Associate
Prof Ivan Daskalov Centre of Biomedical Engineering
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2002 – 2005 Affiliated Lecturer
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
1995 – 2000 Information Services Consultant, Unisys Corporation
Projects
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Coutts & Co Global Customer Management Information System,
City of London, 1999 - The Isle of Man Land Registry System, Leeds, 1998
- Unisys EAD Restructuring, Uxbridge, London, 1996
- Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1995
- Various projects for off-shore software development for Unisys Corporation, Unisys Bulgaria, 1996 – 1999
1993 – 1994 Coordinator
Dutch-Bulgarian SME project sponsored by the Dutch Government, Sofia
1994 – 1998 Affiliated Researcher
Dutch-Bulgarian-Hungarian COPERNICUS EU project on work motivation and quality of working life
1991 – 1993 Free lance interpreter, English & Bulgarian, Sofia
Courses Taught
2010 – Risk Management, Sofia University
2006 – The Economic Agents’ Decision Making, Sofia University
2002 – Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty, Sofia University
2004 – 2008 Informatics Seminars, Sofia University
1998 – 1999 Organization Development Seminars, Sofia University
1996 – 1997 Quantitative Methods in Management and Marketing, TU Sofia
Invited Lectures
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, January 2010.
Justus Liebig University - Giessen, Research Colloquium of the Department of Economics, February 2009.
Publications
Book
Mengov, G. (2010) Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty. Plovdiv – Sofia, Janet 45. [In Bulgarian]
Journal Articles
Mengov, G. (2010) Neurobiology and decision making: An intriguing rendezvous? Information Technologies and Control, forthcoming.
Egbert, H. & Mengov, G. (2009) Satisfaction and disappointment in consumer choices – an experiment. Psychological Research, 4, 71-80.
Mengov, G., Egbert, H., Pulov, S., & Georgiev, K. (2008) Affective balances in experimental consumer choices. Neural Networks, 21 (9), 1213-1219.
Mengov, G. & Nikolova S. (2008) Utility function derived from affective balance theory. Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Comptes Rendus), 61 (12), 1605-1612.
Mengov, G., Georgiev, K., Pulov, S., Trifonov, T., & Atanassov, K. (2006) Fast computation of a gated dipole field. Neural Networks, 19, 1636-1647.
Trifonov, T., Georgiev, K., & Mengov, G. (2008) Interactions in an ART neural system. Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, 16 (1), 105-114.
Georgiev, К., Trifonov, T., & Mengov, G. (2005) Efficient orienting subsystem in an adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural network. Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Comptes Rendus), 56 (5), 531-536.
Mengov, G. (2005) Analytical solution of the resonance in an adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural system. Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, 10 (1), 45-52.
Mengov, G., Pulov, S., Atanassov, K., Georgiev, K., and Trifonov, T. (2003) Modelling neural signals with a generalized net. Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, 7 (2), 155-166.
Mengov, G., Hadjitodorov, S., & Aarons, A. (2003) Prediction of serum tobramycin in patients with NONMEM and simulated annealing. Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Comptes Rendus), 56 (5), 47-50.
Mengov, G. D., Zinovieva, I. L., and Sotirov, G. (1999) Modeling work motivation with a Fusion ARTMAP neural network. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, 3, (2), 85-99.
In Bulgarian
Mengov, G. (2009) Stochastic approximation in support of the Received View. Machine Building and Machine Science: Economics and Management Series, 4 (3), 77-81.
Mengov, G. (2009) Objective probability and expert belief. Обективна вероятност и експертна увереност. Machine Building and Machine Science: Economics and Management Series, 4 (3), 44-48.
Totkov, A. & Mengov, G. (2009) Personal attitudes towards investment risks. Automation and Informatics, 2, 53-57.
Mengov, G. & Nikolova S. (2009) The economic agents’ utility functions. Yearbook of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, vol. 8, 149-166.
Mengov, G. & Todorova, O. (2009) Managerial experience and negative affect in a hypothetical choice of a manager. Yearbook of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, vol. 8, 167-178.
Mengov, G. (2007) Subjective judgments based on small samples. Automation and Informatics, 41 (4), 36-40.
Mengov, G. & Mintova, D. (2006) Rationality in investment decisions. Automation and Informatics, 40 (4), 38-40, 48.
Mengov, G., and Gerganov, E. (2004) Decision making under risk and uncertainty: I. Theoretical review. Psychological Investigations, 3-2004, 63-75.
Hristova, E., Mengov, G., and Gerganov, E. (2005) Decision making under risk and uncertainty: II Empirical study of Bulgarian economists and IT experts. Psychological Investigations, 1-2005, 5-20.
Mengov, G., Zinovieva, I., and Stoikova, V. (2005) Attitudes of the Bulgarian IT experts and economists towards their employer. Automation and Informatics, 39 (2), 66-69.
Mengov, G. and Hristova, E. (2004) The human factor in decisions under risk in industrial systems. Automation and Informatics, 38 (2), 11-13.
Mengov, G. and Sotirov, G. (2001) Neural networks for analysis of organizational behavour in industrial systems: I. MLP. Automation and Informatics, 35 (3/4), 37-40.
Mengov, G. and Sotirov, G. (2001) Neural networks for analysis of organizational behavour in industrial systems: II. ARTMAP. Automation and Informatics, 35 (5/6), 25-29.
Conference Papers & Project Reports
Mengov, G. (2009) Levels of decision analysis. Proceedings of the UAI International Conference of Automatics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 29.09 - 2.10. 2009, V, 25-27.
Mengov, G., Egbert, H., Pulov. S., & Georgiev, K. (2007) The role of disappointment and satisfaction in consumer decisions. Abstract Book of the 10th Annual Conference of FEBA, Sofia, 5-7 October 2007, p. 20.
Mengov, G. (2007) Introducing new instruments into science: An example from experimental economics. Tutorial presented at the second summer school for doctoral students, June 2007, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, forthcoming.
Mengov, G., Hadjitodorov, S., and Shannon, A. (2001) Modeling Cognitive Brain Processes with a Generalized Net. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Generalized Nets, Sofia, June ’01, vol. 1, 59-61.
Mengov, G. D., Zinovieva, I. L., and Sotirov, G. (2000) Patterns of Work Attitudes: A Neural Network Approach. In Dubois, D., (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems CASYS’99, Liege, Belgium, American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York, pp. 221-229.
Mengov, G., Zinovieva, I. L., and Sotirov, G. (1998) Predicting work-related psychological variables with a Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network. In Trappl, R. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR ’98), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna, vol. 2, 610 – 615.
Mengov, G. (1995) Bulgaria – Country Profile Autumn 1995. Report, Project Work motivation and quality of working life, COPERNICUS CIPA-CT93-0256.
Mengov, G. (1994) Bulgaria – Country Profile Spring 1994. Report, Project Work motivation and quality of working life, COPERNICUS CIPA-CT93-0256.