Academic CV · Updated October 7, 2026.
Contact
- Address
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School of Mathematical Sciences,
Xiamen University
- hoxide@xmu.edu.cn, hoxide@gmail.com
Research Interests
- Representation theory: reductive groups, theta correspondence, the local Langlands program, Hecke algebras, geometric representation theory, and invariant theory.
- Formalized mathematics: game theory and representation theory in Lean, AI-assisted mathematical research, and integrating Lean into teaching.
Formalization projects
- EconCSLib — a Lean 4 library for computational economics and game theory.
- LanglandsProject — a mathematical knowledge base and Lean foundations for the Langlands program.
Education
- 2013 Feb, Ph.D in Mathematics
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dissertation: Two topics on local theta correspondence
Advisor: Professor Chengbo Zhu - 2007 Jun, B.S. in Mathematics
- Soochow University, Suzhou Jiangsu China
Final Year Project Advisor: Professor Dingbian Qian
Career History
- July 2021 — present
- Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, China
- July 2021 — June 2026
- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Jan 2017 — June 2021
- Associate Professor (Tenure Track), School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Mar 2016 — Dec 2016
- Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Sept 2014 — Feb 2016
- Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Oct 2013 — Aug 2014
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Apr 2013 — Aug 2013
- Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Funding (Principal Investigator)
- 2026–2029: National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program.
- 2025–2027: Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund.
- 2023–2025: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
- 2022–2024: Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund.
- 2018–2020: National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scientists.
Teaching — courses and tutorials
Teaching
Recent courses
- 2026 Spring, G1138: AI for Mathematics, Xiamen University Malaysia (general elective)
- 2026 Spring, MAT205: Abstract Algebra II, Xiamen University Malaysia
Past courses
- 2025 Fall, Abstract Algebra I
AbstractAlgebraGame: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/math-xmum/abstractalgebrai - 2021–2025 Fall, Research Methodology (graduate course), Xiamen University Malaysia
- 2022–2025 Spring, Abstract Algebra II, Xiamen University Malaysia
- 2023–2024 Fall, Algebraic Topology, Xiamen University Malaysia (undergraduate/graduate course in 2024)
- 2021 and 2022 Fall, Abstract Algebra I, Xiamen University Malaysia
- 2021 Spring, 高等代数(荣誉)
- 2020 Spring, 医科高数(A)
- 2020 Spring, 高等代数
- 2020 Spring, 高等代数(荣誉)
- 2019 Fall, 线性代数
- 2019 Spring, 代数拓扑
- 2019 Spring, 医科高数(A)
- 2018 Spring, 医科高数(A)
- 2018 Spring, 代数拓扑
- 2017 Fall, 代数数论
- 2017 Spring, 高等代数与解析几何, SJTU
- 2016 Fall, MA6291: Topics in Mathematics I — Character theory of representations of reductive groups over local fields (graduate course), NUS
- 2015 Summer, MA1030E: Linear Algebra I, CUHK
- 2013 Fall, Geometric Representation theory, 5-lectures, BGU
Tutorials
- 2012 Fall, MA1505: Mathematics I (calculus for engineering students), NUS
- 2012 Spring, MA1506: Mathematics II (mathematical models for engineering students), NUS
- 2011 Fall, MA1505: Mathematics I (calculus for engineering students), NUS
- 2011 Spring, MA1505: Mathematics I (calculus for engineering students), NUS
- 2010 Fall, MA1505: Mathematics I (calculus for engineering students), NUS
- 2010 Spring, MA1505: Mathematics I (calculus for engineering students), NUS
- 2009 Fall, CS1231: Discrete Structures (for students in computer science), NUS
- 2009 Spring, CS1231: Discrete Structures (for students in computer science), NUS
- 2008 Fall, Matlab, NUS
- 2008 Spring, Matlab, NUS
Publications and preprints
Preprints
- Theta correspondence and Springer correspondence
(with Zhiwei Yun, Congling Qiu, and Jia-Liang Zou), ArXiv e-print; 2512.13020
Publications
- Special unipotent representations of real classical groups: construction and unitarity (with Dan Barbasch, Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu), J. Amer. Math. Soc., published electronically September 21, 2026. DOI: 10.1090/jams/1082. ArXiv e-prints: 1712.05552 (slides). The python code of the algorithm in the paper can be found at https://github.com/jiajunma/unipotentrepn
(Watch the talk by Chengbo Zhu explaining the main points of the paper.) - Fourier-Jacobi models of Deligne-Lusztig characters and depth zero local descent for unitary groups (with Dongwen Liu and Fang Shi), ArXiv e-print: 2208.02308, Israel Journal of Mathematics 273 (2), 581–631 (2026; first published online 11 December 2025).
- On the annihilator variety of a highest weight module for classical Lie algebras (with Zhanqiang Bai, and Yutong Wang), ArXiv e-print: 2304.03475, Journal of the London Mathematical Society 112 (2), Article e70256 (2025).
- Special unipotent representations of real classical groups: counting and reduction (with Dan Barbasch, Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu) ArXiv e-print: 2205.05266, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, published online first, 28 March 2025.
- Genuine special unipotent representations of spin groups (with Dan Barbasch, Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu), ArXiv e-print: 2303.03571, Symmetry in Geometry and Analysis, Volume 1, Progress in Mathematics 357, pp. 141–164 (2025; first published online 18 September 2024).
- Associated varieties of minimal highest weight modules (with Zhanqiang Bai, Wei Xiao, and Xun Xie), Represent. Theory 28 (2024), 498-513, ArXiv e-print: 1909.00914 https://doi.org/10.1090/ert/681
- Special unipotent representations of simple linear Lie groups of type A (with Dan Barbasch, Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu), ArXiv e-print: 2304.04495 , Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series 40 (3), 707–716 (2024).
- Generic Hecke algebra and theta correspondence over finite fields (with Congling Qiu, Jialiang Zou), ArXiv e-print: 2208.00431, Advances in Mathematics 438, Article 109444 (2024). (Watch my talk)
- On the Notion of Metaplectic Barbasch–Vogan Duality (with Dan Barbasch, Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu) ArXiv e-prints: 2010.16089, International Mathematics Research Notices 2023 (20), 17822–17852 (2023)
- Nilpotent orbits of orthogonal groups over p-adic fields, and the DeBacker parametrization (with Tobias Bernstein, Monica Nevins, Jit Wu Yap) ArXiv e-prints:1808.03593, Algebras and Representation Theory 23 (5), 2033–2058 (2020).
- Local theta correspondence between supercuspidal representations,
(with Hung Yean Loke), ArXiv e-prints: 1512.01797, 2018, Annales Scientifiques de l’ENS (PDF) [Errata] - On two questions concerning representations distinguished by the Galois involution,
(with Maxim Gurevich and Arnab Mitra), ArXiv e-prints: 1609.03155, Forum Mathematicum 30 (1), 141–157 (2018; first published online in 2017) - Local theta correspondences between epipelagic supercuspidal representations,
(with Hung Yean Loke and Gordan Savin), ArXiv e-prints:1501.07069, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Jun 2016 - Derived functor modules, dual pairs and U(g)K-actions, ArXiv e-prints:1310.6378, Journal of Algebra, Volume 450, pp 629–645, Mar 2016
- Invariants and K-spectrums of local theta lifts,
(with Hung Yean Loke), ArXiv e-prints:1302.1031, Compositio Mathematica, Jan 2015 [Errata] - Transfers of K-types on local theta lifts of characters and unitary lowest weight modules,
(with Hung Yean Loke and U-Liang Tang), ArXiv e-prints:1207.6454,
Israel Journal of Mathematics, Vol 201, Issue 1, pp 1-24, 20 June 2014
Selected talks — expand full list
Selected Talks
- September 25, 2026 — Moment Maps and the Theta Correspondence. Recent Progress on the Unitary Dual Problem, Brin Mathematics Research Center, University of Maryland
- August 31, 2026 — AI 辅助数学科研和教学的一点实践分享. Tianyuan Mathematical Center in Southeast China, Xiamen University
- August 8, 2026 — AI与数学 — panel discussion (panelist). CSML 2026, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- July 19, 2026 — AI 时代的数学工作流:一个普通数学工作者的实践报告. CSIAM-BDAI 2026, AI4Math session, Xiamen
- July 10, 2026 — An Adventure in Agentic AI and Lean Formalization. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- June 20, 2025 — Hecke Algebra approach to Local Theta correspondence. The Ninth International Conference on Representation Theory, Nanjing University
- An Adventure in Formalization: From the Game Theory to Algebraic Structures September 3, 2024, AI for Mathematics Workshop on Lean, Automated Reasoning and Beyond (official programme), BICMR, Peking University
- June 28, 2024 — Theta correspondence and its Geometrization. HKU Number Theory Days 2024, University of Hong Kong
- November 10, 2023 — The weak Arthur packet of real classical groups. Arthur Packets, IASM, Hangzhou
- Lean and Coxeter groups
May 27, 2023 at SJTU, 数学快闪沙龙. - July 14, 2022 — Generic Hecke algebra and theta correspondence over finite fields. Representations and Characters: Revisiting the Works of Harish-Chandra and André Weil, IMS, NUS
- April 14, 2022 — Generic Hecke algebra and theta correspondence over finite fields. Minimal Representations and Theta Correspondence, ESI, online
- December 25, 2020 — Towards the explicit description of local descent of symplectic supercuspidal representations of GL(2n). Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Beijing
- September 2, 2020 — Special unipotent representations of real classical groups and theta correspondence. Associated Varieties and Unipotent Representations, BICMR, online
- September 29, 2019 — Types and Local theta correspondence between supercuspidal representations. New Developments in Representation Theory of p-adic Groups, Oberwolfach
- December 14, 2018 — On theta correspondence over finite fields. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- June 12, 2018 — On unipotent representations of real classical groups. AMS-CMS International Meeting, Shanghai
- July 19, 2017 — Types and Local theta correspondence between supercuspidal representations. Representation Theory of p-adic Groups, IISER Pune
- August 10, 2016 — Theta correspondence and Moment maps. The 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing
- Local theta correspondence between supercuspidal representations
Jul 23 2014 at NUS, Sep 05 2014 at IMS CUHK, July 26 2015 at Zhejiang University,
April 22 2015 at NUS, May 08 2015 at HKUST, Dec 25 2015 at Kyoto University - Theta correspondences and representations of classical groups
Oct 09, 2014, School of Mathematical Science, Suzhou University, China - Explicit local theta correspondences between (epipelagic) supercuspidal representations
May 28 2014, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar, Ben Gurion University, Israel - Associated varieties and associated cycles of local theta lifts
Feb 26 2014, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - Theta lifts of one-dimensional representations
Dec 05 2012, Symposium on Representation Theory 2012, Kagoshima, Japan - Derived functor modules, dual pairs and U(𝔤)K-actions
Jan 28 2011 at Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory IMS NUS,
Mar 15 2012 at Conference on Branching Laws IMS NUS
Conference organization and participation — expand full list
Conferences and Workshops
Conferences and Workshops Organized
Upcoming
- December 7–11, 2026 — Langlands Program for Covering Groups. Tianyuan Mathematical Center in Southeast China, Xiamen University. Co-organizer.
Past
- July 15–24, 2026 — AI4Math @ ZJU: Summer School and Workshop. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (summer school: July 15–21; workshop: July 22–24). Co-organizer.
- August 10–16, 2025 — Conference on Relative Langlands Program. Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming. Co-organizer.
- August 3–9, 2025 — Workshop on Harmonic Analysis on Algebraic Groups. Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming. Co-organizer.
- July 21–27, 2024 — Real Reductive Groups and Theta Correspondence. Tianyuan Mathematics Research Center, Kunming. Co-organizer.
- April 15–26, 2024 — Workshop on Formal Proofs and Lean. Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore. Co-organizer.
- June 18–21, 2021 — Workshop on Representation Theory and Langlands Program. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. Co-organizer.
Selected Conferences Attended
- September 22–25, 2026 — Recent Progress on the Unitary Dual Problem. Brin Mathematics Research Center, University of Maryland.
- August 7–9, 2026 — CSML 2026. Shanghai Jiao Tong University; panelist in AI与数学.
- July 17–19, 2026 — CSIAM-BDAI 2026. Xiamen; speaker in the AI4Math session.
- June 17–23, 2025 — The Ninth International Conference on Representation Theory. Nanjing University.
- September 2–4, 2024 — AI for Mathematics Workshop on Lean, Automated Reasoning and Beyond (official programme). BICMR, Peking University.
- June 25–28, 2024 — HKU Number Theory Days 2024. University of Hong Kong.
- July 1–15, 2022 — Representations and Characters: Revisiting the Works of Harish-Chandra and André Weil. IMS, NUS, Singapore.
- April 11–15, 2022 — Minimal Representations and Theta Correspondence. ESI, Vienna (online participation).
- March 6–29, 2016 — Tutorials and Workshop on New Developments in Representation Theory. IMS, NUS, Singapore.
- July 26-31, 2015, Workshop on Automorphic Forms, Geometry and Representation Theory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- June 1-5, 2015, Representation Theory, Number Theory and Invariant Theory In honor of Professor Roger Howe on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Yale University, US
- April 20-22, 2015, Representation Theory and Number Theory Workshop, NUS, Singapore
- Aug 15-29,2014, Multiplicity problems in harmonic analysis (2), Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
- Jul 21-23,2014, Workshop on Representation Theory, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Jun 18-27,2014, The Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures, Paris, France
- Mar 16-21,2014, Toward the Proof of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Jul 1-13,2013, Workshop on Unitary Representations of Real Reductive Groups; Conference on Representation Theory of Reductive Groups, University of Utah, US
- Jan 4-9,2013, Algebraic Groups and Representation Theory, A Conference in Memory of Tonny A. Springer, Hongkong, China
- Dec 4-7,2012, Symposium on Representation Theory 2012, Kagoshima, Japan
- Jun 3-9,2012, International summer school and workshop on representation theory and harmonic analysis, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- Mar 11-31,2012, Branching Laws, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore
- Jan 3-11,2012, International Colloquium on Automorphic Representations and L-Functions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
- Aug 13-19,2011, The 4th ILJU School of Mathematics: Theta Festival, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
- Jun 6-10,2011, International summer school and workshop on representation theory and harmonic analysis, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- Jun 8-12,2010, International summer school and workshop on representation theory and harmonic analysis, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- Jun 9-13,2008, International summer school and workshop on representation theory and harmonic analysis, Nankai University, Tianjin, China