[3] In the same year, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow in experimental surgery at the Surgical Medical Research Institute in Edmonton, Canada under the supervision of Kenneth L. Bowes.

[4] In 1995, Mintchev became assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, with a joint appointment in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Surgery.

In 1997 he won the Whitaker Foundation Chair position in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.

[4][14] He has been external reviewer of several widely used university textbooks on microelectronic circuits[15] and biomedical signal processing,[16] as well as for several professional societies, including IEEE,[17] AGA,[18] SPE, and BMES.

[19] Mintchev is the author of hundreds of articles in leading international scientific journals and conferences,[20][21] and of dozens of patented inventions[21][22] in the fields of biomedicine, electronics, intelligent microsystems, inertial navigation, computer and software engineering, and Internet of Things.