Quick Facts
TaurusBiography
Avram Mois Eskenazi (14 May 1946) is a Bulgarian professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education
Eskenazi was born as Avram Mois Eskenazi in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1964 he began attending Faculty of Mathematics at Sofia University, during which year he also won bronze medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 1969 he graduated with an M.Sc. degree in mathematics and in 1978 defended Ph.D. in computer science with a thesis Computer assisted test generation.
Career
Professorship
Avram Eskenazi served as researcher and senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1969 to 1983 and two years later became the head of the Software Engineering Department at the same place, a position which he kept until 2012. Between those positions, he also served as a professor at the University of Economics Varna, at which he still is, and in 2010 became again a senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2014, Eskenazi became an associate member and professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, at which he still serves.
Educator
As an educator, Eskenazi had taught M.Sc. courses on software engineering. His first appointment as such was from 1972 to 1989 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University where he taught introduction to computer science, data structures and organization, Computer assisted learning, and software engineering. From 1992 to 1997 he taught data structures and organization, software engineering, and Advanced software engineering at the International University in Sofia, Bulgaria and since 1997 teaches extreme programming, e-commerce, and software engineering at the University of Economics in Varna, Bulgaria.
He also taught M.Sc. courses at the New Bulgarian University from 2002 to 2004 on project management software, extreme programming, e-commerce and software engineering, and from 2003 to 2015 taught software engineering at the Varna Free University.
Positions
From 1986 to 2012 Eskenazi was a Bulgarian representative to the IFIP TC2 Software Theory and Practice and since 1993 serves as member of the Bulgarian chapter on the Council of ACMBUL. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Bulgarian representative to the UNESCO Program of Informatics and since 1999 is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, which was extended to senior membership for him in 2009.
He also was a council member and chairman of the International Foundation "Cyrillus and St Methodius" in 1998 and 2001 respectively and between 2003 and 2007 had served on the board of directors of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education in Moscow, Russia.
From 1991 to 1999 Eskenazi was a member of the general assembly of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and held the same position at the same place from 2011 to 2012 as well. Since 2011 he is serving as chairman of the advisory council on Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and since 2006 is a publishing editor and reviewer of Serdica Journal of Computing.