Curtin
University, Perth, WA, Australia
Ventsi G. Rumchev received
his M.Sc. (Honours) degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (Systems and Control) in 1968 and his PhD
degree in Applied Mathematics in 1971 both from St.
Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Saint
Petersburg, Russia). He was awarded with D.Sc. degree
(advanced doctorate) in 1991. V. G. Rumchev had worked
for the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
at the Technical University of Sofia (the largest
university in Bulgaria) for a number of years. He has
also held Visiting Professor Positions with Coventry
University and Brunel University, and Visiting Research
Fellow Positions with Imperial College and Coventry
University, all in the UK. In 1995 V.G. Rumchev joined
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Curtin
University at Perth, Western Australia, where he is
currently a senior lecturer. An author and co-author of
6 monographs and textbooks and over 200 research papers
published in archived peer-reviewed journals and
conference proceedings, V.G. Rumchev has an extensive
consultancy practice in mathematical modelling,
operations research, systems and control,
decision-support systems and others.
His current research interests include
positive system theory and its applications
(environment, production systems, telecommunications,
artificial life and robotics among the others),
constrained linear systems (reachable and controllable
sets, feedback stabilisation) applied graph theory and
reliability, and optimal control.
Dr Rumchev has been
member of the Organizing and Program Committees of a
number of International Conferences including all of the
recent International Symposiums POSTA Positive Systems:
Theory and Applications, held in Rome (Italy, 2003),
Grenoble (France, 2006) and Valencia (Spain, 2009).
