Yi Zhao, Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Georgia State University 25 Park Place, Atlanta, GA 30303 Office: 1403, (404) 413-6452 Email: yzhao6 AT gsu.edu

Short Bio

I graduated from Rutgers University in 2001, under the supervision of Endre Szemeredi (2012 Abel Prize Laureate).

I was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago 2002-2005. I joined GSU as an Assistant Professor in 2005, became an Associate Professor in 2011, and a professor in 2016.

Research Interests:

Combinatorics, Graph Theory, theoretical Computer Science.

External grants

• NSF grants DMS 2300346 (2023-2026), DMS 1700622 (2017-2021), and DMS 1400073 (2014-2017)
• Simons Collaboration Grants, 2020-2025 (current), 2014-2019 and 2017-2022 (awarded but declined)
• NSA Grants, 2004-2006, 2006-2008, 2009-2011, 2012-2014

Internal grants: Campus Research Board Award (UIC), Research Initiation Grant, and Faculty Mentored Grant (GSU).

Publications (on-line papers):

PhD Students:

Jie Han (graduated in 2015, now a full Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology) and Chuanyun Zang (graduated in 2016, now a data scientist at AT&T).