About me

I am Zixiang Xu (徐子翔). I was born in Zhuji (诸暨), Zhejiang (浙江), in 1993.

Now I am a research fellow at Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group, Institute for Basic Science, mentored by Hong Liu. I obtained my Ph.D degree in 2022 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, my advisor was Gennian Ge. Back in 2016, I received my B.S. degree from the School of Mathematical Science, Zhejiang University.

Research Interests

Extremal Combinatorics, Discrete geometry, Information theory, Building bridges

Hobbies

Table tennis (semi-professional), billiards (played regularly), running (currently running 100-150 km per month with a pace of 4-5.5 minutes per kilometer).

PB: Half Marathon: 01:56:33 (2025 Apr 26); 10KM: 00:45:19(2025 June 7) ; 5KM: 00:21:33 (2025 June 12)

Others

2024 Kirkman Medal

Email address

zixiangxu@ibs.re.kr