Sheng-Yang Kevin Ho

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D. in Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University (2020 – 2025).
M.S. in Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University (2018 – 2020).
B.S. in Mathematics(major) and Computer science(minor), National Tsing Hua University (2014 – 2018).

Employment:

S.E.W. Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, CA 92093, United States. July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028.
Graduate Assistant at The Pennsylvania State University, PA 16801, United States. August 1, 2020 to May 3, 2025.
Visiting Scholar at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. March 9 to March 17, 2024; May 5 to May 16, 2025.
Research Assistant at National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. June 1 to August 17, 2020.

Publications:

The rational torsion subgroup of J0(𝔭r), Research in the Mathematical Sciences 11 (2024), no. 4, 60.
On the rational cuspidal divisor class groups of Drinfeld modular curves X0(𝔭r), International Journal of Number Theory 20 (2024), no. 08, 2099–2123.
On Drinfeld modular curves for SL(2), joint work with Jesse Franklin and Mihran Papikian, International Journal of Mathematics (2025).
Ogg’s conjectures over function fields, joint work with Cécile Armana and Mihran Papikian, arXiv Version Number 1, submitted to Celebratio Mathematica (2024).

PhD Dissertation:

Master Thesis:

Awards:

Raymond and Christine Ayoub Award for Outstanding Thesis, Penn State University, 2025
Vollmer-Kleckner Scholarship in Science, Penn State University, 2020
Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, National Tsing Hua University, 2018
Award of Poster Paper, Taiwan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2017
Academic Excellence Award, National Tsing Hua University, Spring 2017
College of Science Scholarship, National Tsing Hua University, 2016
Academic Excellence Award, National Tsing Hua University, Fall 2016
Academic Excellence Award, National Tsing Hua University, Spring 2016
Academic Excellence Award, National Tsing Hua University, Spring 2015
Academic Excellence Award, National Tsing Hua University, Fall 2014

Lecturer Experience at UC San Diego:

Lecturer Experience at Penn State University:

Math 220: Matrices, in Fall 2021, Fall 2023, and Fall 2024
Math 250: Ordinary Differential Equations, in Spring 2023
Math 251: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, in Fall 2022
Math 252: Partial Differential Equations, in Fall 2024
Math 22: College Algebra II and Analytic Geometry, in Spring 2022
Departmental problem session leader for the Complex Analysis Qualifying Examination, in Fall 2021

TA Experience at Penn State University:

TA Experience at National Tsing Hua University:

My Presentations:

“On Drinfeld modular curves for SL(2)”, Seminar at NTHU, 2025
“The Rational Torsion Subgroups of the Drinfeld Modular Jacobians”, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar at PSU, at NTHU, and at the 2nd AMS-UMI International Joint Meeting, 2024
“Periods of t-modules as special values” by Maurischat, Learning Seminar at PSU, 2024
“The exponential of Abelian t-modules”, Learning Seminar at PSU, 2023
“On the Rational Cuspidal Divisor Class Groups of Drinfeld Modular Curves X0(𝔭r)”, at NCTS and at NY Number theory Conference, 2023
“Resolution of Cusp Singularities”, Hilbert modular forms and Hilbert modular surfaces, online working seminar at PSU, 2023
“Introduction to Drinfeld Modules”, seminar at PSU, 2022
“The De Rham isomorphism for Drinfeld modules over Tate algebras” by Gezmiş, seminar at NTHU, 2020
“Explicit class field theory for rational function fields” by Hayes, seminar at NTHU, 2019
“Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms”, seminar at NTHU, 2018

Attended Conference:

The 10th Iwasawa Conference at NCTS, 2025
BB6 - Building Bridges: EU/US Summer School and Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, 2024
The 2nd AMS-UMI International Joint Meeting, 2024
The Legacy of Ramanujan, at PSU, 2024
Algebra and Number Theory Seminar at PSU, 2020-2025
Midwest AGNTS, 2023
Eleventh Annual Upstate NY Number theory Conference, 2023
Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Numbers VI, 2023
TMS Annual Meeting, 2019
Arithmetic of Function Fields and Diophantine Geometry, 2019
Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on Multiple Zeta Values, 2018
NCTS One Day Workshop on Multiple Zeta Values in Positive Characteristic, 2017

Attended Summer and Winter Schools:

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