Snezhana G. Gocheva-Ilieva graduated in mathematics and obtained her M.Sc. degree in computational mathematics from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria. She completed her Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1981. In 206 she defended her Doctor of Sciences degree in University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

She is currently working as a full professor of applied mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Modeling at University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”. She has published over 125 articles in international journals, 2 monographs, 12 books and has presented many research papers at international conferences. Her research interests include various fields, including data mining, predictive data mining techniques, applied statistics and mathematical modeling in physics, engineering, environmental science.

1. I. P. Iliev, S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva, Modeling and simulation of output power of a high-power He–SrBr2 laser by using multivariate adaptive regression splines, Optics & Laser Technology, Available online 1 July 2012, vol. 45, No1, pp. 461-468, 2013.
2. А. Ivanov, S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva, Short-Time Particulate Matter PM10 Forecasts Using Predictive Modeling Techniques, AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 1561, pp. 209-218, 2013.
3. I. P. Iliev, D. S. Voynikova, S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva, Application of the classification and regression trees for modeling the laser output power of a copper bromide vapor laser, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2013, Article ID: 654845, 2013.
4. S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva, A. V. Ivanov, D. S. Voynikova, D. T. Boyadzhiev, Time series Analysis and Forecasting for Air Pollution in Small Urban Area – an SARIMA and Factor Analysis Approach, Stoch. Env. Res. Risk A., Springer, vol. 28 (4), pp. 1045-1060, 2014.
5. A. Ivanov, D. Voynikova, S. Gocheva-Ilieva, H. Kulina, I. Iliev, Using principal component analysis and general path seeker regression for investigation of air pollution and CO modeling, AIP Conf. Proc. 1684, 100004, pp. 1-11, 2015.

- Membership and reviewer in over 50 scientific conference committiees, including Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys)  2015, 2016, 2017; Computing Conference 20016, 2017; Future Technologies Conferences  FTC2016, FTC2017 - topic Data mining   

- Reviewer of referred journals such as: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier), IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Atmospheric Pollution Research (Elsevier) and more

- Reviewer of ACM