Guantao Chen

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