About me
I am a Lecturer and a member of the pure mathematics research group at the University of Sydney .
Previously, I was a research fellow at the University of Melbourne , MPIM Bonn and IBS-CGP Pohang .
I received Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Craig Westerland .
I'm interested in the arithmetic theory of algebraic varieties and moduli spaces, with focus on the geometry of rational points on algebraic stacks over function fields — viewed as families of varieties over curves.
Slides (Sanya 2025 ) "Height moduli spaces and exact
Shafarevich counts for families of varieties "
Here are my profiles on Google Scholar , MathSciNet , ZbMATH , ORCiD and Curriculum Vitæ .
Seminars & Workshops
Teaching
MATH2069 : Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory. The University of Sydney, Spring 2026.
MATH1062/1023 : Math 1B - Multivariable Calculus and Modelling. The University of Sydney, Spring 2026.
MATH3061 : Geometry & Topology. The University of Sydney, Fall 2025.
Topics in NT : Totality of rational points on moduli stacks - Counting families of varieties. KIAS-LFANT Winter School on Number Theory, January 2025.
MATH1004 : Discrete Mathematics. The University of Sydney, Fall 2024.
Topics in AG : Elliptic Surfaces - Classical to Moduli. The University of Melbourne, Spring 2023.
Projects in progress
Arithmetic of the moduli of Calabi-Yau fibrations over function fields
Tate's algorithm via twisted morphisms of abelian surfaces
Motivic aspects of exotic smoothness on elliptic surfaces
Publications and Preprints
Height moduli of elliptic surfaces: Motivic height zeta rationality and Kudla-Millson modularity of Mordell-Weil rank jumps
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Counting isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over Fq(t)
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100% of elliptic curves with a marked point have positive rank
(with Tristan Phillips)
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Height moduli on cyclotomic stacks and counting elliptic curves over function fields
(with Dori Bejleri and Matthew Satriano)
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Étale cohomological stability of the moduli space of stable elliptic surfaces
(with Oishee Banerjee and Johannes Schmitt)
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Arithmetic geometry of the moduli stack of Weierstrass fibrations over P1
Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol. 310, No. 4, #84 (2025) (with Johannes Schmitt)
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Enumerating odd-degree hyperelliptic curves and abelian surfaces over P1
Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol. 304, No. 1, #5 (2023) (with Changho Han)
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Motive of the moduli stack of rational curves on a weighted projective stack
Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 1, #1 (2021) (with Hunter Spink)
Special issue of PIMS 2019 Workshop on Arithmetic Topology
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Arithmetic of the moduli of semistable elliptic surfaces
Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 375, No. 3-4, 1745-1760 (2019) (with Changho Han)
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Unique fiber sum decomposability of genus 2 Lefschetz fibrations
Topology and its Applications, Vol. 222, 29-52 (2017)
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Lantern substitution and new symplectic 4-manifolds with b2 + = 3
Mathematical Research Letters, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1-17 (2014) (with Anar Akhmedov)
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Miscellaneous
Last updated: April 24th 2026