Ph.D. in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. Dissertation: An algebraic approach to the operator product expansion. Advisor: Victor G. Kac.
Diploma in Mathematics (equivalent to M.S.), Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1996. Thesis: Highest weight modules over W1+∞ algebra and the bispectral problem. Advisor: Emil Horozov.
Director of Graduate Programs in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 07/2024 to present.
Professor, Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 08/2019 to present.
Visiting Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, 10/2018-12/2018.
Associate Professor, Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 08/2009-07/2019.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 08/2003-07/2009.
Research Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, 08/2000-07/2003.
Liftoff Mathematician, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge MA, 06/2000-07/2000.
Visitor, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, 02/1999-08/1999.
Hermann Weyl Prize awarded by the International Colloquia on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, for original work of significant scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries, 2006.
Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2003.
Liftoff Fellowship, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge MA, 2000.
Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Prize for best research paper by an MIT graduate student in Mathematics, 2000.
A. P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, MIT, 1999-2000.
Silver Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, Sigtuna, Sweden, 1991.