EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Mathematics: The University of South Carolina, 08/1997-08/2001
• B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics: Plovdiv University, 09/1991-07/1996

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor: Towson University, 08/2005-present
• Postdoc: The University of Texas at Austin, 01/2003-07/2005
• Postdoc: The University of Toronto, 07/2001-12/2002

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Analytic and elementary number theory, with particular interest in additive number theory, sieves, and the distribution of primes.

PUBLICATIONS: You can find the list of my publications here.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

RECENT SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE TALKS

• July 2008: Exceptional sets for sums of primes and squares of primes, 10th Meeting of the Canadian Number Theory Association (CNTA X), Waterloo, Canada.
• May 2008: Additive bases arising from functions in a Hardy field, 6th Annual Workshop on Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (CANT 2008), New York, NY.
• May 2008: Exceptional sets for sums of primes and squares of primes, AMS Meeting #1039, Claremont, CA.
• February 2008: Exceptional sets in the Waring-Goldbach problem, Special Ergodic and Number Theory Seminar, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
• July 2007: Exponential sums over primes and their applications, Number Theory Seminar, Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China.
• February 2007: Small gaps between primes: The ideas of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Pure Mathematics Colloquium, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
• January 2007: Small gaps between primes: The ideas of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Number Theory Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• at Towson University: Basic Math for the Sciences, Precalculus, Elementary Linear Algebra, Introduction to Abstract Math, Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Honors Calculus I, Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic Structures, Senior Seminar.
• at the University of Texas: Calculus I, Calculus II, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Probability, Complex Analysis, graduate topics course.
• at the University of Toronto: Calculus, Introduction to PDEs.