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Fernando Xuancheng Shao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky (UKy). He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University (2014) under the supervision of K. Soundararajan. His research focuses on analytic number theory and additive combinatorics, with particular emphasis on the distribution of primes, exponential sums, sieve theory, Gowers norms, and structure theory of sumsets.
Before joining UKy in 2017, he served as a Glasstone Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2014–2017). He has received NSF grants (DMS-2200565 and DMS-1802224) and awards including the Polya Teaching Fellowship (2014) and Putnam Fellow (2007). His academic contributions include groundbreaking work on the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem for nilsequences and the resolution of Singmaster’s conjecture in Pascal’s triangle.
Shao has taught a wide range of courses at UKy, from undergraduate calculus to graduate-level topics in algebra and analysis. He advises graduate student Ali Alsetri and has mentored visiting scholars and undergraduates in research projects. He is actively involved in academic service, including organizing conferences, serving on hiring committees, and advising mathematics competitions at UKy.
