Dessislava Petrova-Antonova Email and Phone Number

As a research group leader at GATE Institute, I am a coordinator of the GATE pilot project “City Digital Twin,” where a 3D City Model covering an area of Sofia is under development to facilitate simulation, analysis, and visualization of the urban environment and processes. My research interests include Data management focusing on data interoperability, semantic enrichment, and domain-specific data models as well as the development of digital twins in different application domains.I am presently head of the MSc program “Technology entrepreneurship and innovations in IT.” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University and a lecturer in the BSc program of Software engineering and the MSc program in Software technologies. I co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed academic publications and successfully participated in several European and national RTD projects (more than 30).