{"id":2,"date":"2022-09-20T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:48:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am Zixiang Xu (\u5f90\u5b50\u7fd4). I was born in Zhuji (\u8bf8\u66a8), Zhejiang (\u6d59\u6c5f), in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I am a Senior researcher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/\">Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group, Institute for Basic Science<\/a>, mentored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/hongliu\/\">Hong Liu<\/a>. I obtained my Ph.D degree in 2022 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/math.cnu.edu.cn\/\">School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University<\/a>, my advisor was <a href=\"https:\/\/math.cnu.edu.cn\/FACULTY\/qtjs2\/szmjs\/G\/8bfe1818e449437cb6b2fd37f1d02e6f.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/math.cnu.edu.cn\/FACULTY\/qtjs2\/szmjs\/G\/8bfe1818e449437cb6b2fd37f1d02e6f.htm\">Gennian Ge<\/a>. Back in 2016, I received my B.S. degree from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.zju.edu.cn\/\">School of Mathematical Science, Zhejiang University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Extremal Combinatorics, Discrete geometry, Information theory, Building bridges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hobbies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Table tennis (semi-professional, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zjrb.cn\/ebook\/29\/index.html#p=370\">some old news<\/a>), billiards (played regularly), running (currently running 100-150 km per month with a pace of 4-5.5 minutes per kilometer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half Marathon: 01:47:54 (2026 March 22);  01:48:40 (2026 March 15); 01:49:43 (2026 Feb 01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Others<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-ica.org\/news.php\">2024 Kirkman Medal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Email address<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>zixiangxu@ibs.re.kr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Zixiang Xu (\u5f90\u5b50\u7fd4). I was born in Zhuji (\u8bf8\u66a8), Zhejiang (\u6d59\u6c5f), in 1993. Now I am a Senior researcher 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibs.re.kr\/ecopro\/zixiangxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}