IPDSS Staff

Iliyan Barzev

Office address:
"Acad. G. Bonchev" St., bl. 2, Sofia - 1113, Bulgaria
E-mail: iliyan.barzev@iict.bas.bg

Scientific area

Machine Learning, Methods and Algorithms, Malware, Cybersecurity
Cloud Security, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Digital Forensics, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps, Big Data Security, Security Automation and Orchestration

Languages

     Bulgarian, English

Education

Master of Science in Software Engineering, 2022

Selected Papers

1. Barzev, I., Borissova, D. Performance analysis of LSTM, SVM, CNN and CNN-LSTM algorithms for malware detection in IoT dataset. WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMPUTER RESEARCH, vol. 13, 288-296, 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232018.2025.13.27.
2. Barzev, I., Borissova, D.: An improved static analysis approach for malware detection by optimizing feature extraction combining different ML algorithms. In: Bennour, A., Bouridane, A., Almaadeed, S., Bouaziz, B., Edirisinghe, E. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition. ISPR 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2304, pp. 102–115, 2025, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82153-0_8.
3. Barzev, I., Borissova, D., Buhtiyarov, N.: Comparison of different binary classification algorithms for malware detection. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Hochstetter Diez, J., Diéguez Rebolledo, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 932, pp. 369–378, 2024, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54235-0_33.
4. Borissova, D., Barzev, I., Yoshinov, R., Kotseva, M.: Group decision-making models for selection of virtual machine software for malware detection purposes. In: Proc. of 12th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO), Budva, Montenegro, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO58584.2023.10155084.
5. Gotsev, L., Jekov, B., Kovatcheva, E., Nikolov, R., Barzev, I., Shoikova, E.: A case study: Integrating big data technologies for IoT security into experimental lab session. In: Proceedings of the INTED2021, pp. 5028–5037 (2021). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1036
6. Gotsev, L., Kovatcheva, E., Jekov, B., Nikolov, R., Peshev, A., Barzev, I., Shoikova, E.: DATA SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE DEMONSTRATOR LAB DEVELOPMENT. In: Proceedings of the INTED2021, pp. 5038-5047 (2021). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1038

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