I had my undergraduate education in Physics at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridsky" in Bulgaria. After that I continued with my graduate education at the University of Chicago, where I received my M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics.  I am currently an assistant professor in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the Center for Computational Biology and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University. I am working on problems of biological sensory processing of natural stimuli and details of neural coding schemes used in biological nervous systems. Some of the papers I've written can be found here.

I am currently serving on the board of the Organization for Computational Neuroscience. I was a member of its Program Committee for the last three years. I co-organized several workshops on biological information processing as part of the CNS meeting.

I am a review editor for Froniters in Computational Neuroscience, and reviewer for a bunch of journals (Network, JCNS, Biological Cybernentics, Neuron, Journal of Physics A, to name a few).