I am Afif^, currently a final-year PhD student in mathematics (won’t be for long!) at University of New South Wales, Australia, supervised by Alina Ostafe and Igor E. Shparlinski. Previously I graduated with a bachelor and master degree from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, supervised by Aleams Barra. I am expecting to start my new position as a postdoctoral researcher at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, from September 2026.
I am interested in various aspects of number theory and combinatorics. In particular, my PhD project studies arithmetic statistics of algebraic groups using techniques from analytic number theory. Click here for more information on my research and education.
My CV in pdf is available via this link. Here are the links to my Google Scholar, ORCID and zbMath profiles. My Erdős number is 3.
Outside of research, I am also involved in several mathematical outreach activities: for example, I wrote the following “moefied” math books (more information here):
I came from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. I am a native in Bahasa Indonesia and Basa Banjar, and could speak English and Python. Outside of mathematics, I have various hobbies, as seen in this homepage.
Click here for my recent news.
- I just got thesis revisions; hopefully I will officially get my PhD soon.
- I am expecting to start my new position as a postdoctoral researcher at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) from September 2026.
- I will attend SMS 2026 Universal Statistics in Number Theory, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montreal at 4-15 May 2026.
- I plan to attend 10th Pacific Rim Math Conference at Academica Sinica, Taiwan, at 15-19 June 2026.
- I will (remotely) attend BIRS workshop: Arithmetic, L-functions, and Pseudorandomness at 6-11 September 2026.
Address: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
University Email: m dot afifurrahman at unsw dot edu dot au.
A note on nickname.
^Muhammad is also fine, especially for non-Indonesians. Most Indonesians, including myself, do not have proper first-last name convention. See this Wikipedia link on this practice.Last updated in May 2026.