Dr. Andrea Kulakov
(October 2011) Andrea Kulakov graduated from high school in 1990 at the age of 16, after successfully completing two school years in one (7th and 8th grade, and 11th and 12th grade). She then enrolled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje and graduated in 1995 with the highest grade point average of 9.91 in her 1990-95 class. In 1995, he began postgraduate studies in Cognitive Sciences at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a small international group of students taught in English. He completed the studies with excellent results (5.71 out of a max. of 6.00). In July 1998, he defended his master's thesis, “Vygovorotsky – An Anticipative and Analogy-making Actor,” with excellent results (5.50), before a five-member international committee (without his mentor). In 1999, the master's degree was recognized at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje. During his nine-month military service in 1999, he also worked as a teaching assistant at the Military Academy for the subject „Computer Science.“ He then worked for six months at the international software company Mac-System, during which he spent a month and a half in training in Paris, France. From April 2000 to September 2011, Andrea Kulakov was employed at the Institute of Computer Technology and Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (later the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) in Skopje, first as an assistant, and from 2007 as an associate professor. He has taught several courses in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Databases at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In June 2005, she won the award for research leading to a doctoral dissertation from the largest society of electrical engineers, IEEE, specifically from their Society for Computational Intelligence (http://ieee-cis.org/edu/research/ below, in the 2005 section). In December 2006, he defended his doctoral thesis “Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks” at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. He was a researcher and principal investigator on several domestic and international projects funded by the Ministry of Education, the TEMPUS programs, and the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme. In 2008 he founded the advanced technology research and development company NI TEKNA – Intelligent Technologies (www.ni-tekna.com), which works on the development of advanced solutions where the application of artificial intelligence techniques is necessary. In March 2011, he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering in Skopje. In August 2011, he was appointed head of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering. He is responsible for several undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of artificial intelligence, data analysis, robotics, and wireless sensor networks. He has published over 60 scientific papers in international conferences and journals, as well as a book chapter. His research focuses on the areas of robotics, business intelligence, image and sound processing, and other subfields of cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence. In addition to his native Macedonian, he is fluent in English, Serbian, and Bulgarian, and also has working knowledge of German, French, Russian, and Slovenian.
| Paper Title | Place | Country |
|---|---|---|
| A Kind of Mind: Consciousness and AI | in Consciousness Research Abstracts Book, Tucson III, Arizona, 50 | |
| A Model for Agile Computer-Integrated Business Systems, Manufacturing Agility and Hybrid Automation-II | of The Sixth International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Agility and Hybrid Automation, IEA Press | Hong Kong |
| Investigating Perception in Humans Inhabiting Simple Virtual Environments: An Enactivist View | Cognitive Science Conference on Perception, Consciousness and Art, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels | |
| Virtual Classroom and Virtual Laboratory | Proceedings of the 20th World Congress on Open Learning and Distance Education | Germany |
| An agent-based model as a marketing consultant for companies | IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2001), pp. 3113-3117 | Arizona |
| Structure, Inner Values, Hierarchies, and Stages: Essentials for Developmental Robot Architecture | in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 63-70 | Sweden |
| A Model of an Expectancy-Driven and Analogy-Making Actor | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society, 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning | Massachusetts |
| Incorporating ICT into Education in Macedonia | Proceedings of the UNESCO International Sub-Regional Seminar: The Use of Distance Education and Information and Communication Technologies in Teacher Education: Trends, Policy and Strategy Considerations | Ukraine |
| Interactivist approach to representation in epigenetic agents | Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics | Sweden |
| Web access to the Library IT System at ETF (FEI) and MF (FMI) | Proceedings of ETAI 2003 | Macedonia |
| MapInfo-Based Infrastructure – Presentation and Updating | Proceedings of the ICEST 2004 | Macedonia |
| Single Exponential Smoothing Method and Neural Network in One Method for Time Series Prediction | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems | Singapore |
| Tracking of unusual events in wireless sensor networks based on artificial neural-network algorithms | Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing | United States of America |
| Distributed Algorithm for a Mobile Wireless Sensor Network for Optimal Coverage of Non-stationary Signals | Web Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Modeling of Wireless Networks held in conjunction with IEEE WiOpt 2005 | Italy |
| Implementing Artificial Neural Networks in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications | Proceedings of the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications | United States of America |
| Data mining in wireless sensor networks based on artificial neural network algorithms | Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining in Sensor Networks in conjunction with the 2005 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | United States of America |
| Intelligent data aggregation in sensor networks using artificial neural network algorithms | Technical Proceedings of the 2005 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 3, pp. 427–430, Nanotech 2005 | United States of America |
| Application of wavelet neural networks in wireless sensor networks | Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing | United States of America |
| Distributed data processing in wireless sensor networks based on artificial neural network algorithms | Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications | Spain |
| Pocket PC Web – Access to the Library IT System | Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces – ITI 2005 | Croatia |
| Learning patterns in wireless sensor networks based on wavelet neural-networks, | Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks, held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems | Japan |
| Modeling cortical plasticity in natural sensory systems | Epigenetic Robotics Conference | Japan |
| Integrating ART into a scalable cognitive architecture | Poster at the Epigenetic Robotics Conference | Japan |
| Web access to the library via mobile devices and Pocket PCs is part of advanced education. | Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference Computers and Advanced Technology in Education | Aruba |
| Intelligent Data Acquisition and Processing Using Wavelet Neural Networks | Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications | Bulgaria |
| GPRS and WAP – Access to the Library IT System | Proceedings of ETAI 2005 | Macedonia |
| A Robust Platform Supporting Interactivist Agent Architecture: Progress Report | Interactivist Summer Institute | South Carolina |
| Mobile Multimedia for Engineering Education in Signal Processing | Proceedings of the 9th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education | Oman |
| Efficient Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks using Artificial Neural Networks | Final report for the 2005 Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society | |
| Interactivism in artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent robotics | New Ideas in Psychology, Elsevier | |
| On Curiosity in Intelligent Robotic Systems | AAAI Fall Symposia | United States of America |
| Emergence of Higher-Order Motivational Systems in Artificial Agents | Book of Abstracts, Interactivist Summer Institute | France |
| An Autonomous Mental Development Architecture Implemented in a Scalable Database System | Book of Abstracts, Interactivist Summer Institute | France |
| Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks Using FuzzyART Neural-Networks | of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications | Portugal |
| HCI for m-Learning in Image Processing by Handhelds, Human Interface and the Management of Information | Interacting in Information Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Volume 4558, pp. 299-308 | |
| A System for Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks | Eight Years 2007 | Macedonia |
| Inductive Logic Programming and Embodied Agents: Possibilities and Limitations | International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS), IGI Publishing, Inaugural Issue, pp 34-49 | |
| Experiments in Data Management for Wireless Sensor Networks | Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, pp 191-195, SENSORCOMM | France |
| K. Trivodaliev, S. Kalajdziski, A. Kulakov, D. Davcev, G. Mirceva | Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing | Spain |
| Stojkoska B., Davcev D., Kulakov A. | Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology | France |
| SGNG Protein Classifier by matching 3D structures | Proceedings of The 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, | Spain |
| Learning and Position Estimation of a Mobile Robot in an Indoor Environment using FuzzyART Neural Network | IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics | |
| Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and Reasoning by Analogy in the Context of Embodied Robot Learning | Proceedings of the ICT Innovations Conference, | Macedonia |
| System for Integrated Financial Data Based on Data Services | Proceedings of the ICT Innovations Conference | Macedonia |
| Credit Risk Management through Client Classification using K-Means and the Decision Tree | Proceedings of the ICT Innovations Conference | Macedonia |
| The Role of Artificial Neural Networks in the Detection of Pulmonary Functional Abnormalities | Engineering Review, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 1-11 | |
| Modified Growing Neural Gas Algorithm for Faster Convergence on Signal Distribution Sudden Change, | Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies | |
| Position estimation of mobile robots using unsupervised learning algorithms | Proceedings of the ICT Innovations Conference | Macedonia |
| System for predicting the winner in a sports game | Proceedings of the ICT Innovations Conference | Macedonia |
| Modeling attention within a complete cognitive architecture | Book Chapter in Roda C., Ed., Attention Support in Digital Environments, Cambridge University Press, |
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