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Martin Pavlov Mintchev (Martin P. Mintchev) is a Bulgarian engineer and experimental surgeon.

He is currently Professor, Head of the Department of Engineering at Howard Payne University in Texas, USA and Director of the Engineering Laboratory there, as well as External Professor of Experimental Surgery at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

He graduated from the Technical University of Sofia in 1987 with a specialization in Medical and Nuclear Electronics. In 1994, he defended his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Jack Kingma (Y. Jack Kingma). In the same year, he trained in experimental surgery at the Surgical Medical Research Institute in Edmonton, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth L. Bowes, and in 2001 (at the age of 38) became a full-time tenured professor at the University of Calgary. where he is currently Professor Emeritus.

He is the author of hundreds of articles in leading world scientific journals and conferences, and of dozens of patented inventions in the field of biomedicine and medical electronics. His scientific publications are widely cited by international scientific circles (Hirsch index > 30, and over 3000 external citations).

In 2007, for a particularly significant contribution to the development of biomedical instruments, he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Washington, DC, USA. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of the American Gastroenterological Association, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE (2010-2011). He was a member of the Scientific Grants Evaluation Committees of the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada).

He is the recipient of the highest teaching and research awards of the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and has been interviewed by some of the biggest TV and radio stations in the world such as CTV, Global TV, CBC, NPR, UPI and more. Articles about his scientific developments have been published in many newspapers and magazines around the world, incl. Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Globe and Mail, etc. He has been a guest speaker at many universities and scientific forums around the world.