Research Interests
      Commutative Algebra, Homological Algebra

Education
  2001-2006:  Ph.D Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Advisor: Sankar P. Dutta
Thesis: Asymptotic Behavior of Homology and Intersection Multiplicity

1999-2001:  M.S Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

1994-1999:  B.S. Mathematics
University of Science and Technology of China 

Positions in Mathematics

2006-current Philip T. Church Postdoctoral Fellow,  Syracuse University

Publications and Preprints
4. Asymptotic vanishing conditions which force regularity in local rings of prime characteristic (with Ian Aberbach),
to appear, Math. Res. Letters
3. Characterizations of regular local rings in positive characteristics,
to appear , Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
2. Characterizations of modules of finite projective dimension over complete intersections,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 136, 1271--1275 (2006)
1. The upper bound of Frobenius related length functions,
J. of Algebra, 285, 856--867 (2005)

Honors

2006 Finalist, Department Teaching Award, UIUC
  2005 Irving Reiner Memorial Award (for outstanding scholastic achievement 
in algebra), UIUC

2004-2005 UIUC Campus Research Board Grant, UIUC

Summer 2004 Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC

2003-04 Teaching Fellow, UIUC

Summer 2003 University Fellowship, UIUC

Invited Talks and Conferences
Jan. 2008 San Diego, Joint Meetings, Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra
Nov. 2007 Georgia State University, Algebra Seminar
Nov. 2007 University of South Carolina, USC-GSU Commutative Algebra Conference
Oct. 2007 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Commutative Algebra Seminar
Sept. 2007 Cornell University, Route 81 Conference
Jun. 2007 BIRS (Banff) Workshop: Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry
Mar. 2007 Davidson College, NC, Davidson College AMS Meeting, 
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Sept. 2006 Syracuse University, Route 81 Conference
Apr. 2006 San Francisco State University, San Francisco AMS Meeting, Special Session on Commutative Algebra
  Feb. 2005 Syracuse University, Algebra Seminar

Jan. 2005 Atlanta, AMS Joint Meetings, Special Session on Commutative Algebra

Teaching Experience

      At Syracuse University
Fall 2007 First Course in Linear Algebra
Spring 2007 First Course in Linear Algebra
Spring 2007 Calculus I (for life science students)
Fall 2006 First Course in Linear Algebra
Fall 2006 Calculus I (for Arts and Sciences students)
      At University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2006 Calculus for Business, Large Lecture Instructor, approx. 200 students
 
Fall 2005:
Calculus for Business, Large Lecture Instructor, approx. 200 students

Summer 2005:
Introductory Matrix Theory, Instructor, appox. 25 students

Spring 2003:
Calculus I, Recitation

Fall 2002
Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Instructor, appox. 40 students

Summer 2002:
Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Instructor, appox. 30 students

Spring 2002:
Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Instructor, appox. 40 students

Fall 2001:
College Algebra, Instructor, appox. 40 students

Spring 2001:
Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Instructor, appox. 40 students

Fall 2000:
Calculus I, Recitation

Fall 1999:
Calculus I, Recitation