My name is Nawapan Wattanawanichkul, but I go by “Ploy”. Originally from Ubon Ratchatani, Thailand, I received the King’s Scholarship from the Thai government in 2016, which allowed me to pursue my undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College in the United States. Currently, I am working towards a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with a primary focus on analytic number theory, particularly in the theory of $L$-functions and automorphic forms.