Max Wenqiang Xu (徐文强)

About Me

• I am a Simons Junior Fellow at the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted by Courant Institute. I did my PhD at Stanford where I was extremely fortunate to be advised by Prof. K. Soundararajan and Prof. Jacob Fox.

• I was a research member at SL Math (MSRI), Berkeley, in Spring 2025.

I look forward to Universal Statistics in Number Theory, in Montréal 2026.

• I am interested in number theory, probability, combinatorics, and their interaction. See Research for details. See this article on Scientific American for fun.

• I am co-organizing "International Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Automorphic Representations" 2026 Dec.14-18, at Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF). Stay tuned!

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University (2019-2024)
  Advisors: Prof. Kannan Soundararajan and Prof. Jacob Fox.

• M.A.St. in Mathematics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (2018-2019)
  Mentor: Prof. Péter Varjú.

• BSc in Mathematics, University College London (2015-2018)
  Mentor: Prof. Andrew Granville.

Contact

Photo Credit: Simons Foundation