Lina Li

Lina Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Mississippi within the College of Liberal Arts. She joined the faculty after completing postdoctoral positions at Iowa State University under Ryan Martin and the University of Waterloo under Luke Postle.

Her academic background includes:

• B.S. in Mathematics from Xi'An Jiaotong University (2014)
• M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018)
• Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020) supervised by József Balogh

Dr. Li's research centers on extremal and probabilistic combinatorics with specific expertise in enumeration problems, (hyper)graph colorings, and graph tilings. Her methodological approach combines combinatorial, probabilistic, and algebraic techniques to address fundamental questions in discrete mathematics. Current investigations include structural properties of hypergraphs and extremal set theory.

Her 14 publications demonstrate consistent contributions to combinatorics, with recent work focusing on Hamming cube colorings, rainbow Turán problems, and hypergraph chromatic numbers. Key trends include probabilistic analysis of extremal structures and connections between graph theory and combinatorial geometry, primarily published in top venues like Combinatorica and Journal of Combinatorial Theory.

Dr. Li actively disseminates her research through international invited talks at institutions including Shandong University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea, reflecting her growing influence in the global combinatorics community.