Ender Minyard

I am an incoming student at the City University of New York, where I will be studying for a Master of Science in Mathematics.

I recently took Introduction to Number Theory I and Post-Quantum Cryptography while a student of New York University. In the Fall 2025 semester, I studied number theory as a mentee in the Twoples mentorship program.

I am interested in number theory, especially as it relates to post-quantum cryptography.

Under the guidance of my Twoples mentor Hunter Handley, I was able to solidify my understanding of the Hasse-Minkowski theorem by writing an expository paper. I studied data science and machine learning at Columbia University as part of an undergraduate research program. I became interested in the connections between NP-hard problems in cryptography and open questions about hardness of learning in computational learning theory.