John Hunn Smith graduate student

About

I’m a first-year PhD student in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. I am fortunate enough to be advised by Stephen Melczer and Michael Wallner at TU Wien.

My research lies in analytic combinatorics in several variables (ACSV), specifically constructive verification of coefficient positivity. Lately, I’ve become interested in enumeration problems arising from unusual areas or applications, such as geometry & topology, model theory, mathematical biology, and electronic circuit theory. I also like computer algebra, especially creative telescoping methods for summation and integration, as it relates to problems in combinatorics.

I completed my master’s degree in Computer Science at Waterloo, and hold bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Research Group(s)

Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics

Symbolic Computation Group

Institution(s)

University of Waterloo, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization

200 University Ave W

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L-3G1

Publications

Stephen Melczer, John Hunn Smith, “SagePeriods: A SageMath Package for Fast Diagonals of Rational Functions.” Proceedings of the International Congress on Mathematical Software, 2026.

Colin Albert, Olivia Beckwith, Irfan Demetoglu, Robert Dicks, John H. Smith and Jasmine Wang, “Integer Partitions with Large Dyson Rank.” Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Mar. 2023.