Faculty Profile

Research Interests:

Algebraic Combinatorics

Permutation Group Theory

Working Experience:

2016.06 – Present， Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

2013.01 – 2016.05， Chair Professor, Peking University

2008.01 – 2016.01， Distinguished Professor，Yunnan University

2006.01 – 2008.12， Chair Professor，Center for Combinatorics of Nankai University

2005.01 – 2013.01， Professor，Associate Professor，University of Western Australia

2004.01 – 2004.12， Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

2003.01 – 2008.01， QEII Researcher, University of Western Australia

2000.05 – 2002.12， Australian Funding Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Australia （Cooperation C. Praeger）

1997.05 – 2000.04， Postdoctoral, University of Western Australia(Cooperation C. Praeger)

Honor and Professional Experience:

1998 Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications “Kirkman Medal”

Publication List:

• ◆ Finite CI-groups are solvable, Bull. London Math. Soc. 31 (1999), 419-423.
• ◆ The finite vertex-primitive and vertex-biprimitive s-transitive graphs with s>3, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353(2001), 3511-3529.
• ◆ On partitioning the orbitals of a transitivie permutation groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 637-653.
• ◆ The finite primitive permutation groups containing an abelian regular subgroup, Proc. London Math. Soc. 87 (2003), 725-748.
• ◆ Analysing finite locally s-arc transitive graphs, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 291-317. (with M. Giudici and C. E. Praeger).
• ◆ On orbital partitions and exceptionality of primitive permutation groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 4857-4872 (with R. Guralnick, C.E. Praeger and J. Saxl).
• ◆ Finite edge-transitive Cayley graphs and rotary Cayley maps, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 4605-4635.
• ◆ Mobius regular maps, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 97(2007), 57-73.
• ◆ Finite edge primitive graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 100 (2010), 275-298. (with M. Giudici).
• ◆ Finite primitive permutation groups with soluble stabilisers and edge-primitive 4-arc transitive graphs, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 103 (2011), 441-472 (with Hua Zhang)