Yifan Jing

Yifan Jing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University (OSU). He previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford’s Mathematical Institute and Wolfson College, mentored by Ben Green. His academic journey includes a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021), supervised by József Balogh and Xiaochun Li, an M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University (2018) under Bojan Mohar, and a B.Sc. from the University of Science and Technology of China (2016), advised by Jack Koolen.

His research focuses on Arithmetic Combinatorics, Analytic and Combinatorial Group Theory, Lie groups, Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Representation Theory, Additive Number Theory, Model Theory applications, Discrete Probability, and Theoretical Computer Science. Notable contributions include work on measure growth in Lie groups, inverse theorems for geometric inequalities, and structural graph theory. He received the 2023 Kirkman Medal for his research contributions.

He currently organizes OSU’s Combinatorics Seminar and teaches Math 4507: Geometry. His advising includes PhD students Yewen Sun, Chavdar Lalov, and Yuchen Meng, alongside mentoring multiple undergraduate researchers at Oxford. Collaborators include leading mathematicians such as Chieu-Minh Tran, Ruixiang Zhang, and Bojan Mohar. His work bridges analysis, algebra, and logic to address problems across combinatorics, number theory, and geometry.