Personal Information Ivan Popivanov Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 3G4 Phone: (416) 978 6986 Email: popivan@cs.utoronto.ca Content Background Research Interests Papers My Other Web Sites Background June 2001 - Present: PhD candidate in Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto. My supervisor is Prof. Renée Miller. October 1999 - May 2001: MSc in Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto. I wrote my thesis under supervision of Prof. Renée Miller. The topic of my thesis is "Efficient Similarity Queries over Time Series Data using Wavelets". October 1992 - November 1998: BSc and MSc in Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the Sofia University. During my graduate study at Sofia University, I was supervised by Prof. Jordan Denev. Research Interests Multidimensional and Highdimensional Index Structures Data Mining in Time-Series Data Papers I. Popivanov, R. Miller "Similarity Search Over Time Series Data Using Wavelets". ICDE 2002, San Jose, CA, 26/2/2002 - 1/3/2002 I. Popivanov "Efficient Similarity Queries Over Time Series Data Using Wavelets". MSc Thesis, University of Toronto, May 2001. I. Popivanov "High Performance File System for UNIX". MSc Thesis, Sofia University, November 1998. My Other Web Sites Bridge, this fascinating and challenging card game, is one of my hobbies. Not so long ago, I wrote some bridge utilities, which I'm distributing as freeware. These utilities and other bridge related information are available on my bridge home page. Ivan N. Popivanov Last modified: Sat Sep 29 2001