About me

I am a third year math PhD student at MIT, where I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Andrew Sutherland.

My main interest lies in computational number theory. In particular, I am interested in computing the L-functions of abelian surfaces.

Previously, I was a pure math masters student at the University of Cambridge with a focus in number theory.

Even before, I was an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo studying a double major in CS and Pure Math. I was fortunate to be advised by David Jao. I worked on elliptic curve isogeny cryptography.

I am grateful to be supported by the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.

Personal: My significant other, Felix Zhou, studies theoretical computer science at Yale.

Publications

Maria Corte-Real Santos, Craig Costello, and Jia Shi "SuperSolver: accelerating the Delfs-Galbraith algorithm with fast subfield root detection" Crypto Conference, 2022

Jia Shi "Column Partition and Permutation for Run Length Encoding in Columnar Databases" 2020 ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition

Preprints

Jia Shi "Lifting L-polynomials of genus 2 curves" 2025

Research and Work Experience

I worked at Microsoft Research as an Undergraduate Research Intern, where I was fortunate to be advised by Craig Costello.

Previously, I worked on database compression algorithms at SAP as a research intern.

I also worked as software engineering intern at Facebook Menlo Park office and Jane Street NYC office.

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