Welcome

I am an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Math­e­mat­ics and Sta­tis­tics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North­ern British Colum­bia.

My research inter­ests are in Num­ber The­o­ry, Mod­u­lar Forms, Moments of L-func­tions,  Auto­mor­phic L-Func­tions and Rankin-Sel­berg Con­vo­lu­tions. For more details, see my pub­li­ca­tions page.

My research is sup­port­ed by NSERC Dis­cov­ery Grant “Moments and Val­ue-Dis­tri­b­u­tion of Auto­mor­phic L-func­tions” (2025–2030).

I was one of the lead col­lab­o­ra­tors on the PIMS-fund­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Group: L‑functions in Ana­lyt­ic Num­ber The­o­ry (2022–2025). In pre­vi­ous years, our CRG orga­nized Com­par­a­tive Prime Num­ber The­o­ry Sym­po­sium which was host­ed at UBC Van­cou­ver (June 17–21, 2024), the BIRS-host­ed sum­mer school Inclu­sive Paths in Explic­it Num­ber The­o­ry at UBCO (July 2–15, 2023), and Moments of L-func­tions Work­shop at UNBC (July 25–29, 2022).

Brief Biography

I received my MSc in Math­e­mat­ics from the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty of Beirut in August 2007 with Kamal Khuri-Mak­disi. In May 2013, I grad­u­at­ed from The Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia with a PhD in pure Math­e­mat­ics. My PhD super­vi­sor was Nike Vat­sal. After that, I spent two years at Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty as a Cole­man Post­doc­tor­al Fel­low work­ing with Ram Mur­ty. From August 2015 until July 2017, I was a PIMS Post­doc­tor­al Fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leth­bridge work­ing with Amir Akbary, Habi­ba Kadiri and Nathan Ng.

Announcements

There are two post­doc­tor­al posi­tions at UNBC start­ing in Sep­tem­ber 2025. One of the  posi­tions is open for researchers with inter­ests in ana­lyt­ic num­ber the­o­ry, ana­lyt­ic the­o­ry of L‑functions, auto­mor­phic forms, arith­metic geom­e­try, and arith­metic sta­tis­tics. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be work­ing with Stan­ley Xiao and myself. Pri­or­i­ty will be giv­en to appli­ca­tions received by July 9, 2025, but appli­ca­tions will be accept­ed until the posi­tion is filled.