About
I am Zixiang Xu (徐子翔). Now I am a Tenure-track Assistant Professor (百人计划研究员) at School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University. I was a Postdoc Research fellow (2022.9-2025.8) and Senior Researcher (2025.9-2026.5) at Institute for Basic Science, mentored by Hong Liu. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2022 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, supervised by Gennian Ge. In 2016, I received my B.S. degree from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University.
Research interests
- Extremal combinatorics
- Discrete geometry
- Information theory
- Building bridges
Selected publications
Kusner's conjecture
- Kusner's conjecture: Exact values and linear bounds , with Hong-Jun Ge and Yang Zhou.
Erdős–Frankl–Pach problems
- A disproof of the uniform witness conjecture .
- Beating the Ahlswede–Khachatrian bound for the Erdős–Frankl–Pach problem , with Tuan Tran.
- Largest 3-uniform set systems with VC-dimension 2 , with Jian Wang and Shengtong Zhang.
- Uniform set systems with small VC-dimension , with Ting-Wei Chao, Chi Hoi Yip, and Shengtong Zhang.
- The Frankl–Pach upper bound is not tight for any uniformity , with Gennian Ge, Chi Hoi Yip, Shengtong Zhang, and Xiaochen Zhao.
Tverberg-type problems and applications
- Tverberg's theorem for unions of convex sets: Sharp bounds and colored extensions , with Gennian Ge and Yang Shu.
- A Tverberg-type problem of Kalai: Two negative answers to questions of Alon and Smorodinsky, and the power of disjointness , with Wenchong Chen, Gennian Ge, Yang Shu, and Zhouningxin Wang.
- Balanced Sperner families via the topological Tverberg theorem , with Chong Shangguan and Yulin Yang.
Euclidean canonical Ramsey theory
- Euclidean Gallai–Ramsey for various configurations , with Xinbu Cheng.
- Canonical Ramsey: triangles, rectangles and beyond , with Yijia Fang, Gennian Ge, Yang Shu, Qian Xu, and Dilong Yang.
- All simplices exhibit canonical Ramsey property , with Gennian Ge, Yang Shu, and Wenjun Yu.
VC-dimension and the structure of dense H-free graphs
- Beyond chromatic threshold via the (p,q)-theorem, and a sharp blow-up phenomenon , with Hong Liu, Chong Shangguan, and Jozef Skokan.
- Interpolating chromatic and homomorphism thresholds , with Xinqi Huang, Hong Liu, and Mingyuan Rong.
See the complete publication list.
Award
Contact
Email: zixiangxu@zju.edu.cn