professor in the faculty of telecommunications. She’s responsible for research and innovation activities in the department “Technology and management of communication systems”. Prof. Marinova did one-year post-doctoral research in CNAM-Paris, France in 1999/2000. She has 10 Ph. D. students– 3 graduated, one is preparing his theses defense and 6 are currently developing her Ph.D. thesis. Prof. Marinova is author and co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, mainly in the area of computer-aided design in electronics and telecommunications. She got several awards: Certificate of merit at the World Congress on Engineering in London, UK in 2007, the Best paper award at AICT 2016, May 22 – 26, 2016 Valencia, Spain and Best paper of a young scientist at ICEST’2019, Sozopol, 28-30 June 2018. She’s coordinator of CEEPUS network project: CIII-BG-1103-06-2122. Modelling, Simulation and Computer-aided Design in Engineering and Management. She has experience as coordinator of several Erasmus+ projects with program and partner countries. She’s also involved in some other national and international educational and research projects, like DRILA project in cooperation with CentraleSupelec, Rennes, France, IoT-ECO CBHE project, etc. She is Senior IEEE member, CAS and WIE and vice chair of the Bulgarian IEEE Chapter CAS/SSC.