1. Personal Information:
Date of Birth: 02.02.1983
Place of Birth: Tianjin
Citizenship: P.R.China
Language: Chinese (native), English (fluent), German (Goethe-Zertifikat C1).
2. Research Interests:
Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics, probability methods in combinatorics.
3. Education and Working Experiences:
2021.10--now: Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, China.
2021.8--2021.9: Principle Investigator of the FWF Elise-Richter Project "Symmetric generating functions and permutation statistics", Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien, Austria.
2019.8--2020.12: Postdoctor, supported by the FWF-Project "Elliptic hypergeometric combinatorics", Project PI: Michael Schlosser, Fakultät für Mathematik, University of Vienna (Uni Wien), Austria.
2015.4--2019.7: Postdoctor, supported by the FWF-Project SFB F50 Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics and the FWF-MOST (Austrian-Taiwanese) Project "Random recursive structures of small diameters", Project PI: Bernhard Gittenberger and Michael Drmota, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Wien, Austria.
2013.4--2015.3: Principle Investigator (Eigene Stelle in German) of the DFG Individual Project JI 207/1-1, supported by the German Research Foundation DFG, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2010.12--2012.11: Postdoctor, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Host: Markus E. Nebel (now at the University of Bielefeld, Germany), AG Algorithm and Complexity, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2005.9--2010.7: Ph.D. in mathematics. Supervisor: Christian M. Reidys (now at the University of Virginia, USA), Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
4. Awards and Honors:
Principle Investigator of Project No. 12201529 "Limiting distributions of permutation statistics", supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) from 2023.01.01 to 2025.12.31.
Principle Investigator of the Elise-Richter Project V 898-N "Symmetric generating functions and permutation statistics", supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Funding success rate of natural sciences in 2020: 16.1%. The Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) announced this news: (website link).
Principle Investigator of the Individual Project JI 207/1-1 "Combinatorial Investigation on the q-analogs of two recursions for Catalan numbers with alternating signs", supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Funding success rate of natural sciences in 2019: 25.4%.
Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from 2010.12.1 to 2012.11.30. (A full contract of 2 years).
Lee Segel Prize
"Asymptotic enumeration of RNA structures with pseudoknots'' written by Emma Yu Jin and Christian M. Reidys won Lee Segel Prize as the best student paper of year 2006-2008 in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
5. Others:
In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft. 宁静致远Master student: Yao Guo (2022--). Doctor student: Xiao-wei Lin (2023--).