Dr. Sisi Zlatanova

Dr. Sisi Zlatanova is an associate professor at the 3D Geoinformation group, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She has graduated as a surveyor at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1983 and has obtained her PhD degree on 3D GIS for urban modelling at the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria in 2000. She worked as a software programmer at the CentralCadastre in Sofia, Bulgaria (1984-1989), an assistant-professor at UACG, Sofia, Bulgaria (1989-1995), a researcher at the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands (1995-1999) and a postdoc, an assistant professor and an associate professor at GIS Technology section, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2000-2014).

Her research interests are in 3D geo-information: 3D object reconstruction, 3D data structures, 3D geo-databases, 3D spatial relationships (topology) and 3D visualisation (VR and AR). Her qualifications are in object-relational database management systems (Oracle Spatial, PostGIS): structuring and organization of semantically reach 3D data (above, beneath and on the surface), organization of Level of Details (including textures), developing of new data types (e.g. freeform curves and surfaces), spatial functions (e.g. for navigation and evacuation), query and simplifications of IFC models (and their matching to CityGML schema), etc.