Dr Dimitar Valchev

Professional biography

Education

2008: PhD in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Signal Processing), Northeastern University, Boston, USA

2001: MEng in Computer Systems, Technical University of Sofia, campus Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1996: Technician in Industrial Electronics, Vocational High School for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Experience

After obtaining my doctoral degree in 2008, for eight years I was teaching communication and computer engineering modules at three universities and two colleges in Bulgaria. During that time, I also spent three half-year periods of research in terahertz technology at leading institutions around the world through competitive international fellowship schemes:

2014: Visiting researcher at the University of Adelaide, Australia

2015: Visiting researcher at Nagoya University, Japan

2016: Visiting assistant professor at the University of Rochester, USA

I joined the Open University as a lecturer in 2017.

Research interests

Communications and signal processing

Remote laboratories for distance STEM education

Teaching interests

Electrical and Electronic Engineering:

T312 Electronics: Signal processing, control and communications;

T212 Electronics: Sensing, logic and actuation;

T276 Engineering: Professions, practice and skills 2 Practical Engineering (microcontrollers activity);

T176 Engineering: Professions, practice and skills 1 (robotics activity);

T885 Team engineering (robotics activity);

T452 The engineering project (electronics focus).