Education
1987-1991, Ph.D. Mathematics, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
1978-1984, B.S. & M.S. Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
Primary Appointments
2009-present, Chair, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Since 2013, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Since 2004, Professor (Joint Appointment), Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Since 2004, Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
1999-2004, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
1995-1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Fall 1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
1991-1995, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Other Academic Positions
2011/2012/2014, Visiting Professor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Summer 2010, Visiting Professor, Universite Paris-Sud, Paris, France
2008-2013, Chutian Guest Chair Professor, Hubei University, China
2007-present, Honorary Guest Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, China
2007-present, Honorary Guest Professor, China Three Gorges University, China
2004-2007, Distinguished Guest Professor, Central China Normal University, China
1998-2007, Honorary Guest Professor, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Feb-Mar 2004, Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong, China
Jan 2004, Visitor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
1996-1997, Visiting Professor, L.R.I., Universite Paris-Sud, Paris, France
Summer 1994, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
1989-1991, Van Vleet Fellow, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
1987-1989, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
1984-1987, Lecturer, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
Awards
2005 Best Paper Award of Cocoon 2005, The Eleventh International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (with Jason Gao, Xingxing Yu, and Wenan Zang)
2001 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, Georgia State University
1989-1991 Van Vleet Memorial Fellowship, University of Memphis
1990 The Second Place Prize of Graduate Research Forum, University of Memphis
Professional Activities
2011-present Managing Editor, Graphs and Combinatorics
2005-2008 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Graph Structure Theory (with X. Yu and W. Zang), Discrete Mathematics
Academic Advising
Doctors of Philosophy
Yan Cao (2019 expected), Graph Theory
Shushan He (2019 expected), Graph Theory
Yang Ping (2016 expected), Graph Theory
Amy Yates (2016 expected), Graph Theory
Yuping Gao (2016 expected), Graph Theory
Songling Shan (2015), Homeomorphically Irreducible Spanning Trees
Nana Li (2014), Union Closed Set Conjecture and Maximum Directed Cut in Connected Digraph
Xue Wang (2009), Towards Predicting Protein Calcium-Binding Pockets
Hai Deng (2007), Identifying calcium-binding sites and predicting disulfide connectivity
Masters
Thomas Hippchen (May 2008), Intersections of longest paths and cycles
Kun Zhao (May 2008), Treatments of Chlamydia Trachomatis and Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Brian Michael Cook (2007), An extension of Ramsey’s theorem to multipartite graphs
Xin Wei (2007), An optimal solution on screening and treatment of chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae
Kinnari Patel (2004), Some eigenvalue results for certain matrices associated with graphs
Ken Keating (2004), Bar-visibility Graphs
Bartholomew Kweku Abban (2003), Re-screening women who test-positive for C. tranchomatics infection: An integer programming to determine numbers of women cured under fixed program budgets
Tran Nguyen (2002), Path Spectrum
Nhi Vuong (2000), Hamiltonian Graphs
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