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

• 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.
• April 2006: Exceptional sets in short intervals, AMS Meeting #1016, South Bend, IN.
• November 2005: The Waring-Goldbach problem, Mathematics Colloquium, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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