Summary
Ivilin Stoianov is a Senior Researcher based in Padua with eight years of formal experience and a long academic trajectory bridging psycholinguistics, cognitive modelling, and computational neuroscience. He develops and tests neurocomputational models of numerical cognition, visuospatial perception, language processing and goal-directed behaviour using deep networks, probabilistic models and Active Inference, and combines experimental psychology with electrophysiology. Currently leading projects such as PACE and MAIA at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, he brings hands-on expertise from Marie Curie-funded work on the visual front-end of reading to connectionist simulations dating back to his PhD. Trained originally in mathematics and computer science and holding a PhD from Groningen, he is comfortable moving between theory, simulation and neural data analysis—a profile that makes him adept at translating abstract computational frameworks into experimentally testable predictions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., psicholinguistics, Ph.D., psicholinguistics at University of Groningen
Master's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian