Kunyi Ma

Kunyi Ma 马坤一

I am Kunyi (Mark) Ma, a PhD candidate in mathematics at Columbia University, advised by Daniela De Silva and Ovidiu Savin.

Kunyi Ma standing beside pink roses
Undergraduate

I graduated from New York University Shanghai in January 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Honors Mathematics and Data Science (Mathematics Concentration). My senior thesis mentors were Vahagn Nersesyan and Zhuang Su.

Before undergraduate

I grew up in Xuhui District, Shanghai, and attended Huishi Elementary School, Xuhui Middle School, and then Nanyang Model High School. During the 2010–2011 academic year, I attended P.S. 173 Elementary School in New York.