Education
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 2003 under the supervision of Efim Zelmanov.
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 2003 under the supervision of Efim Zelmanov.
Kassabov earned a master"s degree from Sofia University in 1998. After postdoctoral research at the University of Alberta he joined Cornell as an H. C. Wang Assistant Professor in 2004. In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He was the 2007–2008 winner of the American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, and in the same year won the Mathematics Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.