Rate My Professor Justin Young

Justin Young serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at The Ohio State University at Newark. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University in 2009, where his dissertation, titled 'The Twisted Tensor L-Function of GSp(4),' was supervised by Professor Stephen Rallis. Young's doctoral work addressed the construction of an integral representation for the twisted tensor L-function associated with globally generic cuspidal automorphic representations of GSp₄ over a number field. He established that the integral is Eulerian, meaning it unfolds into an infinite product expansion corresponding to local factors. By computing the unramified integrals and employing a branching result from GL₄ to Sp₄, he provided a new proof of an analogous identity appearing in D. Jiang's thesis. Furthermore, Young demonstrated the absolute convergence of all local integrals within a suitable right half-plane and their nonvanishing properties for appropriate choices of data. The research concludes with discussions on the poles of the global integral and prospective applications to period integrals and quadratic base change for GSp₄.

Prior to his Ph.D., Young earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Kentucky in 2002. In 2012, he published his dissertation research as 'THE TWISTED TENSOR L-FUNCTION OF GSp4' in the Ohio State University Mathematical Research Institute Publications. His academic profile on Google Scholar lists research interests in algebraic topology and E_n algebras. At The Ohio State University at Newark, Young instructs courses including Math 1135: Number and Operations for Teachers. He has engaged in pedagogical advancements, co-presenting 'Rethinking Gateway Math Courses - Our PACE Experience' alongside Hoai Tran at the 2023 Ohio PKAL Regional Spring Meeting. Young has been acknowledged for his length of service among faculty and staff at the institution.