Pengfei Zhang
Mathematician & Educator
About me
I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2011 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). I was a Pre-Doc Fellow at Northwestern University from 2008 to 2010, a Post-Doc Lecturer at Peking University from 2010 to 2012, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) from 2012 to 2014, a Research Associate at the University of Houston from 2014 to 2015, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) from 2015 to 2017, an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma (OU) from 2017 to 2023, and an Associate Professor there from 2023 to 2025. I relocated to Massachusetts in 2023 to join my wife, Xin Jin, an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boston College — spending my final two years at OU on sabbatical and then on leave — before formally resigning in 2025.
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Research Interests
- Rigidity properties for dynamical systems with singularities.
- Ergodic and statistical properties of chaotic billiards and general hyperbolic systems with singularities.
- Smooth ergodic theory and its applications in partially hyperbolic dynamics.
- Entropy theory and its relations with fractal dimensions.
- Generic properties of dynamical systems, Cr closing and connecting problems.
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