Alia Shahab

Alia Sabur (February 22, 1989 -), born in New York City, United States, is one of the American child prodigies and the youngest university professor in the world. At the age of 9, Shabo already had a black belt in Taekwondo. At the age of 11, he performed with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra in the United States and studied at Juilliard School. At the age of 10, Schaber entered the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and at the age of 14, he obtained a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics with the first grade. After graduation, he entered the doctoral program in materials science and engineering at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. On February 19, 2008, 18-year-old Shabo (three days shy of his 19th birthday) was appointed as a full-time professor of cell science in the Department of Advanced Technology Integration at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. On April 21, 2008, he was hailed as the youngest professor in the history of the world by Guinness World Records, breaking a 300-year-old record. Maclaurin, a disciple of the British scientist Newton, began working as a professor in 1717 at the age of 19.