Fangu Chen

Email: fangu at berkeley dot edu
Beginning in September 2026, I will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Yunqing Tang. My research interests are in number theory and arithmetic geometry. Here is my CV.

Research

Infinitely many supersingular primes for some Mumford's abelian fourfolds

We generalize Elkies’ theorem on infinitude of supersingular primes for elliptic curves to some abelian fourfolds in Mumford’s families, and more generally, to certain families of Kuga-Satake abelian varieties.

Infinitely many Supersingular primes for some abelian varieties over real number fields

We prove infinitude of superspecial primes for quaternionic abelian surfaces of discriminant 6 over number fields with a real embedding, and of supersingular primes for certain Kuga–Satake abelian varieties parametrized by a Shimura curve with bad reduction.