Xiaoming Du
time： 2025-11-27

Xiaoming Du

Position: Associate Professor

Email: scxmdu(AT)scut(DOT)edu(DOT)cn

Research Interests

  • Low dimensional Topology

  • Geometric Group Theory

  • Topological Data Analysis

  • Geometric Methods in Computer Vision

Education and Work Experience

Education Experience:

  • 2003/09 - 2009/07: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China

  • 1999/09 -2003/07: B.S. in Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Work Experience:

  • 2018/12 - present: Associate Professor of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, P.R. China

  • 2009/07 - 2018/12: Lecturer of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, P.R. China

Research Achievement

Research Papers:

  • Du, Xiaoming. On Z2-Thurston norms and pseudo-horizontal surfaces in orientable Seifert 3-manifolds. Topology Appl.312(2022), Paper No. 108060, 17 pp.

  • Du, Xiaoming. The torsion generating set of the extended mapping class groups in low genus cases. Osaka J. Math.58(2021), no.4, 815–825.

  • Du, Xiaoming. The torsion generating set of the mapping class groups and the Dehn twist subgroups of non-orientable surfaces of odd genus. Hiroshima Math. J.50(2020), no.2, 199–206.

  • Xiaoming Du. The Extended Mapping Class Group Can Be Generated by Two Torsions. J. Knot Theory Ramifications, Volume No.26 (2017), Issue No. 11.
    Xiaoming Du. Generating the mapping class groups with torsions. J. Knot Theory Ramifications, Volume 26 (2017), Issue No. 07.

  • Xiaoming Du. Non-wandering expanding maps on branched 1-manifolds and Smale-Williams solenoids. Acta Mathematica Sinica (English Series) 30 (2014), no. 6, 1083–1088.

  • Xiaoming Du. On self-mapping degrees of S^3-geometry manifolds. Acta Mathematica Sinica (English Series) 25 (2009), no. 8, 1243–1252. Cheng Zhang,

Others（Awards、Research Grants…etc）

Research Grants:

  • 2025.1.-2028.12.: General Weyl problem and Teichmuller Theory. (collaborate) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12471075).

  • 2016.1.-2019.12.: Geometric automorphisms of free groups. (collaborate) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11571246).

  • 2015.1.-2018.12.: Anosov flows on 3-manifolds and hyperbolic pieces. (collaborate) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11471248).

  • 2015.01-2018.12.: Relation between Dehn twists in mapping class groups. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11401219).