Background
Dentcheva was born in Bulgaria.
Dentcheva was born in Bulgaria.
She received her military Staff Committee and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) in 1981 and 1989, respectively.
In 2006 she was granted Habilitation from Humboldt University of Berlin, for a dissertation on set-valued analysis. From 1982 to 1994 Dentcheva was with the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in Sofia (Bulgaria). In 1997–1999 she was a visitor at the Rutgers Center for Operations Research of Rutgers University.
In 1999–2000 she was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Lehigh University.
Since 2000 Dentcheva has been with Stevens Institute of Technology, where she holds a position of Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
