I am a Limited Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of Georgia, mentored by Assistant Professor Jiuya Wang.
I completed my PhD in Mathematics in May 2026 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Assistant Professor Yuan Liu.
I am broadly interested in Algebraic Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, and Arithmetic Statistics. More specifically, I want to understand the extent to which Galois Cohomology and Group Theory can give information about global fields and Galois groups, and how this information plays a role in the statistics of global fields.
My CV.
Presentations of Galois groups of unramified extensions of global fields and its predicted distribution (arXiv:2605.14158, submitted).
The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet heuristics, with Yuan Liu (arXiv:2507.21558, submitted).
ken 'dot' willyard 'at' uga 'dot' edu