Hristo Kostadinov (2006)
Hristo Nikolov Kostadinov was born on 6 October 1974. In the period between 2002-2005, he was a Ph.D. student in coding theory at the University of Tokyo. Earlier he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski. His Masters degree is in algebra. In 1998 he graduated with a B.Sc. degree in mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the same university. At the time of receiving the award he was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2005, Dr. Hristo Kostadinov is a mathematician at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. He has 7 publications, some of them printed in prestigious Japanese journals.