Melissa Emory

Melissa Emory serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University's College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, she held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto under James Arthur and completed her PhD at the University of Missouri in 2018 under Shuichiro Takeda.

Her academic journey includes:

• PhD in Mathematics, University of Missouri (2018)

Dr. Emory's research centers on automorphic forms, representation theory, and number theory, with specialized focus on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture, Sato-Tate distributions, and general spin groups. Her work bridges abstract representation theory with concrete Diophantine problems, emphasizing multiplicity one theorems and endoscopic classification. She actively contributes to foundational questions in automorphic representations and their arithmetic applications.

Analysis of her publications reveals consistent exploration of automorphic L-functions and their distribution properties, with recent work expanding into Jacobian varieties and Poisson summation techniques. Her research trajectory demonstrates increasing collaboration across international institutions while maintaining core focus on representation-theoretic approaches to number theory.

Her scientific recognition includes:

• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

As faculty adviser for the OSU Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, she supports gender equity in mathematics. She organizes major conferences including the Automorphic Forms Workshop (2024), TORA XIV (2025), and the James Arthur Legacy Conference (2025), creating platforms for emerging researchers. Her teaching includes actuarial science courses with direct industry exam preparation components.

Dr. Emory maintains active leadership in the automorphic forms community through conference organization, collaborative research, and mentorship initiatives that connect theoretical mathematics with practical career development.