Chief Assist. Prof. PhD Melina Vanyova Neykova
She graduated in 2009 from the Technical University of Sofia – EQD “Bachelor”, specialty “Electronics”. In 2011 she received her Master’s degree, specialty “Industrial Management”. Since 2011 she has been а part-time assistant professor at the University of Forestry. In the period from 2013 to 2016 she was a PhD student at the Department of Computer Systems and Informatics, University of Forestry. In 2016 she defended a PhD thesis on the topic “Evaluation of the Impact of Technological Innovation in the Formulation of an e-Business Strategy”. In the same year she started to work at University of Forestry as an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Systems and Informatics. In 2018, she was elected as the main assistant at the Department of Computer Systems and Informatics, and from from 2021 she was reassigned to the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Faculty of Forest Industry.

He conducts practical classes in the following subjects:

Fundamentals of CAD design – EQD “Bachelor”, full-time study, specialty “Computer technologies in the furniture industry”, 1st year;
Information Technologies – EQD “Bachelor”, full-time studies, specialty “Agronomy”, “Ecology” and “Plant Protection”, 1st year;
Computer systems for design – EQD “Bachelor”, full-time study, specialty “Engineering design” and “Wood technology”, II year;
Databases in management – EQD “Bachelor”, full-time studies, specialty “Alternative tourism” and “Economic management”, II year;
Computer technologies for management – EQD “Bachelor”, full-time study, specialty “Business Management”, IV year;
Information Technologies – EQD “Bachelor”, part-time study, specialty “Forestry”, 1st year;
Information Technologies – EQD “Bachelor”, part-time study, specialty “Wood Technology”, 1st year;
Computer systems for design – EQD “Bachelor”, part-time study, specialty “Wood Technology”, II year;
Business intelligent systems – EQD “Master”, full-time study, specialty “Computer technologies in the furniture industry”, 1st year;
Main areas of scientific interest:

Information Systems and Technologies;
Technological Innovations and Information Security;
E-business Applications;
Computer Aided Design – CAD/CAM systems;
Computer and information technologies and systems in education.