I was born on 14 January 1981 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Education| 1999 | 91 German Language School 'Prof. Konstantin Galabov' in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 1999 - 2000 | Computer science at the University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria. |
| 2000 - 2002 | Computer science at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. (Vordiplom) |
| 2002 - 2006 | Computer science at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. (Diplom, which is equivalent to a MSc degree) |
| 2007 - 2011 | MA Electronic Media at the University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 2011 - present | PhD in Bioinformatics at University of California, Los Angeles. |
Professional experience:
From February 2001 to
September 2002 I was part of the sequence analysis group in the
bioinformatics division of metaGen
Pharmaceuticals GmbH, a spin-off company of Schering AG focused on cancer
research. During this time I worked with Dr. Artemis
Hatzigeorgiou on fine-tuning three pieces of software
based on neural networks that predict coding regions in DNA,
translation initiation sites in ESTs and stretches of signal peptides
in proteins. Later, I continued to work with Dr. Eike Staub
and Dr. Bernd Hinzmann on various other projects in the field of gene
and protein annotation.
From April 2002 to September 2002 I worked with Dr.sc. Jurgen Kleffe at the Free University in Berlin on a gene prediction software called GenGenerator which is based on Markov chains. From September 2001 to February 2002 I worked with him also on a small project about suffix trees and their application in clustering expressed sequence tags.
From November 2002 to April 2003 I was research scholar at the Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Genetics at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. I was working there with Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou on two projects about microRNA genetics and posttranscriptional gene regulation by microRNAs. As result, we developed one of the first software tools that predicts potential target genes for downregulation by micro-RNAs (DIANA-MicroT Analyzer).
From April 2003 to August 2004 I was part of the Gene Regulation Group in the Computational Molecular Biology Department headed by Prof. Martin Vingron at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. There I worked with Dr. Stephan Ropcke on a project for hunting new RNA editing sites using computational approaches. During this work we developed a web interface for structured visualization of sequence conservation.
From April 2005 to April 2006 I worked again in the CMB at the MPI for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
From August 2005 to September 2005 I was visiting the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, where I worked with Debora Marks on a project about understanding the networks of microRNA - mRNA interactions. From this and some previous discussions stemmed the subject of my diploma thesis (Diplomarbeit), which is the uniform generation of random directed graphs with prescribed degree sequence. This work was supervised by Prof. Martin Vingron.
From March 2007 to March 2008 I was working at metalife Bulgaria, a bioinformatics company located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Since April 2007 I am an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" in the course "Introduction to Computational Biology". Currently, I have three semesters of teaching assistantship behind me.
From March 2008 to August 2011 I worked at Blue Edge Bulgaria.
Since September 2011 I am doing my PhD in Bioinformatics at UCLA.
From April 2002 to September 2002 I worked with Dr.sc. Jurgen Kleffe at the Free University in Berlin on a gene prediction software called GenGenerator which is based on Markov chains. From September 2001 to February 2002 I worked with him also on a small project about suffix trees and their application in clustering expressed sequence tags.
From November 2002 to April 2003 I was research scholar at the Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Genetics at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. I was working there with Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou on two projects about microRNA genetics and posttranscriptional gene regulation by microRNAs. As result, we developed one of the first software tools that predicts potential target genes for downregulation by micro-RNAs (DIANA-MicroT Analyzer).
From April 2003 to August 2004 I was part of the Gene Regulation Group in the Computational Molecular Biology Department headed by Prof. Martin Vingron at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. There I worked with Dr. Stephan Ropcke on a project for hunting new RNA editing sites using computational approaches. During this work we developed a web interface for structured visualization of sequence conservation.
From April 2005 to April 2006 I worked again in the CMB at the MPI for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
From August 2005 to September 2005 I was visiting the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, where I worked with Debora Marks on a project about understanding the networks of microRNA - mRNA interactions. From this and some previous discussions stemmed the subject of my diploma thesis (Diplomarbeit), which is the uniform generation of random directed graphs with prescribed degree sequence. This work was supervised by Prof. Martin Vingron.
From March 2007 to March 2008 I was working at metalife Bulgaria, a bioinformatics company located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Since April 2007 I am an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" in the course "Introduction to Computational Biology". Currently, I have three semesters of teaching assistantship behind me.
From March 2008 to August 2011 I worked at Blue Edge Bulgaria.
Since September 2011 I am doing my PhD in Bioinformatics at UCLA.
Technologies:
| Programming languages | C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, SQL. |
| Databases | MS SQL, mySQL, Oracle. |
| Operating systems | Windows, Linux, Solaris, Minix. |
| Web technologies | (D)HTML, Django and the like, JQuery, CGI, ASP, ASP.NET, Google App Engine. |
| Other | Matlab, interfaces for parallel programming (MPI, JPVM), administration of local networks, office software. |
Publications:
1. Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou, Petko Fiziev, Martin Reczko: DIANA-EST:
a statistical analysis. Bioinformatics 17(10): 913-919 (2001)
2. Martin Reczko, Petko Fiziev, Eike Staub, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou: Finding Signal Peptides in Human Protein Sequences Using Recurrent Neural Networks. WABI 2002: 60-67
3. Kiriakidou M, Nelson PT, Kouranov A, Fitziev P, Bouyioukos C, Mourelatos Z, Hatzigeorgiou A.: A combined computational-experimental approach predicts human microRNA targets.Genes Dev. 2004 May 15;18(10):1165-78. Epub 2004 May 06.
4. Staub E, Fiziev P, Rosenthal A, Hinzmann B.: Insights into the evolution of the nucleolus by an analysis of its protein domain repertoire.Bioessays, 2004 May;26(5):567-81
5. Staub, E., Fiziev, P., Rosenthal, A. and Hinzmann, B. The nucleolar proteome and the (endosymbiotic) origin of the nucleus - Response. Bioessays, 2004, 26, 1145-1147.
6. Stefan Roepcke, Petko Fiziev, Peter Seeburg, Martin Vingron: SVC: Structured Visualization of Evolutionary Sequence Conservation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server Issue):W271-3.
7. Petko Fiziev: Uniform generation of random directed graphs with prescribed degree sequence. Diploma Thesis.
8. Petko Fiziev: Pseudoscientific theories and practices. (in Bulgarian) Business Magazine, June 2008.
2. Martin Reczko, Petko Fiziev, Eike Staub, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou: Finding Signal Peptides in Human Protein Sequences Using Recurrent Neural Networks. WABI 2002: 60-67
3. Kiriakidou M, Nelson PT, Kouranov A, Fitziev P, Bouyioukos C, Mourelatos Z, Hatzigeorgiou A.: A combined computational-experimental approach predicts human microRNA targets.Genes Dev. 2004 May 15;18(10):1165-78. Epub 2004 May 06.
4. Staub E, Fiziev P, Rosenthal A, Hinzmann B.: Insights into the evolution of the nucleolus by an analysis of its protein domain repertoire.Bioessays, 2004 May;26(5):567-81
5. Staub, E., Fiziev, P., Rosenthal, A. and Hinzmann, B. The nucleolar proteome and the (endosymbiotic) origin of the nucleus - Response. Bioessays, 2004, 26, 1145-1147.
6. Stefan Roepcke, Petko Fiziev, Peter Seeburg, Martin Vingron: SVC: Structured Visualization of Evolutionary Sequence Conservation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server Issue):W271-3.
7. Petko Fiziev: Uniform generation of random directed graphs with prescribed degree sequence. Diploma Thesis.
8. Petko Fiziev: Pseudoscientific theories and practices. (in Bulgarian) Business Magazine, June 2008.
Conferences attended:
ECCB 2002 - European
Conference of Computational Biology 2002 in Saarbrucken, Germany.
Sponsored by metaGen Pharmaceuticals GmbH.
RECOMB 2003 - Sponsored by a RECOMB Travel Fellowship for presenting a poster.
RECOMB 2003 - Sponsored by a RECOMB Travel Fellowship for presenting a poster.
Languages:
Bulgarian, German, English, Russian.
Contact :
petko.fiziev [at] gmail.com
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