Co-authors and students

Erdős number: 3

• Paul Erdős — Marc Aron Berger — C. T. Kelley — Z.

Remark (initially made on Nov. 14, 2014 in Toulouse)

• Following traditions of the mathematical community, my mathematical papers list the authors in the alphabetical order of their names.

• If I am so lucky as to have the privilege of collaborating with you, I would like to follow this order as well.

• See statements from the Chinese Mathematical Society and the American Mathematical Society for your reference:

  • 中国数学会关于数学学术评价的意见

  • AMS Statement on ‘‘The Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics: Joint Research and Its Publication’’

Graduate students as chief supervisor

• Sept. 2024–present, Zao Jiang, MPhil, Sun Yat-sen University

• Sept. 2022–present, Cunxin Huang, Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, awardee of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2022/23 (ref. PF21-56718), co-supervised with Prof. Xiaojun Chen

• Sept. 2021–present, Haitian Li, Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, co-supervised with Prof. Xiaojun Chen

• Sept. 2019–Aug. 2022, Tom M. Ragonneau, Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, awardee of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2019/20 (ref. PF18-24698), co-supervised with Prof. Xiaojun Chen, thesis: Model-Based Derivative-Free Optimization Methods and Software