Nikolay Nikolov is a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital. His research focuses on scalable data and AI pipelines across Cloud, Fog and Edge infrastructures, with work spanning big data processing, data enrichment, semantic technologies, digital twins and compliance-by-design in national and European R&D projects.
Education
PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo (2025), with a thesis on scalable design, deployment and optimization of Big Data pipelines across the cloud, fog and edge computing continuum. Joint Erasmus Mundus M.Sc. in Service Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, University of Crete and Tilburg University. B.Sc. in Informatics from Coventry University and Bachelor-Engineer in Computer Science from Technical University Varna.
Competence and research areas
Applied research in data management, data integration, data enrichment, Big Data, Semantic Web, Cloud/Fog/Edge infrastructure, digital twins, data spaces and compliance-aware data and AI pipelines. Experience includes technical coordination and work package leadership in EU projects such as DataCloud, enRichMyData and DataPACT as well as development of DataGraft, SIM-PIPE and container-based Big Data pipeline methods.
Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolay-vl-nikolov/
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-0751
