Todor Ivanov is senior big data engineer specializing in the design, implementation and benchmarking of distributed big data systems and data-intensive applications. Until recently, he has worked as a senior researcher at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at Goethe University involved in various projects in Ethical AI (Z-Inspection), Big Data and Big Data benchmarking (DataBench). In 2019 he obtained his Doctorate of Natural Sciences in Computer Science from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Prior to that, he has worked as a senior software engineer developing Flight Information Display Systems (FIDS) for multiple international airports, research assistant at the department of Databases and Distributed Systems, TU Darmstadt and IT consultant in business intelligence and database related projects in the bank sector.