About me
I’m Ivan, a Bulgaria-based data scientist and robotics engineer (20). I prototype ML systems and deploy them in the physical world—voice-interactive robots, gaze-controllable eyes, industrial arms following precise motion profiles and many more.
Recently: evaluation frameworks for rerankers & embedding search (MRR + rank metrics), RAG experiments, and building a real life humanoid interactive robot.
Featured Projects
Need a hand? Let’s collaborate →Voice-Interactive Robot · Neuron
Voice controlled interactive smart humanoid robot.
Robotic Eyes with 6 Servos
Independent eyelids + eyeballs. Real eyes degree of freedom.
Mechanic Humanoid Arm
Precisely mirror arm movements of a human in real time.
Industrial Arm: Sinusoidal Spiral Path
MELFA BASIC VI program for a 6-axis Mitsubishi.
Search Eval: Reranker vs Embeddings
Production Grade Reranker for document chunks after semantic retrieval
Tic-Tac-Toe AI (TMScript)
Eval & best-move logic; turn rules; edge-case fixes.
Awards
- Second place in Robo Days 24 'Second place in Robo Days 24 ' competing with a humanoid arm mirroring a human arm in real time.
- Special award in Robo Days 25 'Special award in Robo Days 25 ', competing with Neuron – the humanoid robot.
- 3rd place in Young Inventors ContestWon 3rd place in Young Inventors contest by Minyu Balkanski Foundation with Neuron.
Publications
- Controlling a robotic arm via artificial intelligenceAngelov I., B. Asparuhova. ITA 2024, Third National Conference for Students and PhD Candidates, UCTM Sofia, Apr 23–25, 2024. Link
- Autonomous drone tracking a faceAngelov I., B. Asparuhova. ITA 2024, Third National Conference for Students and PhD Candidates, UCTM Sofia, Apr 23–25, 2024. Link
- Neuron – humanoid robotAngelov I. ITA 2025, Fourth National Conference for Students and PhD Candidates, UCTM Sofia, Apr 15–17, 2025, pp. 411–414.
Work Experience
- Working on data science projects and ML solutions as well as AI Agents for banking operations.
- Developed and implemented automation solutions with industrial robots.
- Voice-interactive robot with persistent memory and wake word.
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Late 2023
Different Coding experiments from web development to simple integrated systems. Started working on the first prroject that will later win second place in Robo Days 24'.
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2024
Greater Focus on Robotics — robotic eyes (6 servos, eyelids/eyeballs), voice-interactive assistant, begging of Neuron and two ITA’24 papers (robotic arm via AI; autonomous face-tracking drone).
- 2nd Place in Robo Days 24'
- 3rd Place in Young Inventors Contest
- Automation Specialist — Industrial Robots Dept., Exnaton EOOD (Jun 2024 – Feb 2025)
- High School Graduation - PMG "Hristo Smirnenski" - Applied Programming
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2025
Neuron (humanoid robot) greater development, RAG/reranker and experiments building AI Agents. ITA’25 paper on Neuron. Started as Junior Data Scientist at Bank DSK.
- Special Award at Robo Days 25'
- Junior Data Scientist — Bank DSK (Jul 2025 – Present)
- Paper: Neuron – humanoid robot, ITA 2025 (pp. 411–414)
Let’s build something
Best fit: data science, IR eval, LLM apps, and robotics control. Open to internships and junior roles.