POPOV, Dr. Oliver Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University, Sweden Monday, September 7th13:15-15:00 | Session III: GOVERNMENT ANALYTICS FROM BIG DATA | Speaker 2 Oliver Popov is a full professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University, and a full professor at the Department of Information Technology and Media, Mid Sweden University (until 2014). Since 1998, he has been a full professor at Department of Computer Science Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Saints Cyril and Methodius, where he is now a visiting professor. As of July 2010 he is a director of the Systems Analysis and Security (SAS) unit within DSV, Stockholm University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (University of Missouri, Rolla), USA, and his research inclinations converge towards Internet technology, security, privacy, data and systems integrity, cyber forensics and their impact on e-Society, and ICT4D. Professor Popov is the principal architect of Macedonian Academic and Research Network (MARNet), and the President of the Management Board from 1995 until 2002. Dr. Popov has been a member of Management Committee of the Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet) that comprised from NRENs in 25 countries since 1995, Vice-chairman from 1999, and Chairman from 2003 until 2007. At present he serves as a Treasurer and a member of the Management Committee. He has been the Programme Director of the CEENet Network Technology, Management, and Policy Workshops, usually organized in collaboration with NATO and OSI since their inception in 1995. These events have educated more than one thousand people, from technical staff to ICT managers and decision makers in more than thirty countries from Central and Eastern Europe to Central and South-East Asia. Many of these workshops were dedicated to the network and information security and establishing CERTs in various developing and emerging countries. Dr. Popov was the Director of five ISOC/INET Workshops for DCs. From 2000 until 2002, Professor Popov served on the NATO Science Committee Computer Networking Panel. Recently, he has been a member of the Steering committee for the Swedish Programme for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER) in 2004, a member of the of GIPI AC (Global Internet Policy Initiative), a principal ICT advisor for IMPACT e-Government project to the USAID/Internews (2004-2009) and served as an ICT expert in the EU SEEO (Southern and Eastern Europe Observatory in Electronic and Data Communications project), which included ten countries and territories in the SEE region) from 2004 to 2008. Popov was the principal researcher and author of the project related to establishing a pan-African research and education network, which was presented at the World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia (November 2005). In 2008, on behalf of EU he was a part of team of experts that did a feasibility study for the Trans-European Information Network (TEIN-2 and TEIN-3) for the countries of Central Asia (CAREN) in order to connect them to GEANT. He is also an EU expert on ICT since 2002, and has participated in various FP projects. Currently he is involved in the following EU projects: STORK 2.0, e-SENS, and DFET, as well as in initial the Linnaeus-Palme grant. Prev Next
