Ling Zhou

Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor
Department of Mathematics
Duke University

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About Me

I am a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor at Duke University, with mentor Prof. Ezra Miller.

I obtained my Ph.D. in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Facundo Mémoli. In Fall 2023, I was a Semester Postdoc at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), located at Brown University. My postdoc mentor was Prof. Vladimir Itskov.

Research Interests

Algebraic topology, metric geometry, and discrete homotopy theory
Applied topology, topological data analysis, and computational geometry
Applications in neuroscience, network science, and machine learning

Contact Information

Office: Room 208, Physics Building, 120 Science Dr, Durham, NC 27710
Email: ling.zhou@duke.edu

Links:
Google Scholar | Curriculum Vitae | ORCID

Upcoming Events

2026/5/18-21: Foundations of Computational Geometry and Topology, ICERM
2026/4/8: Applied Topology Seminar, AATRN (Online)
2026/3/2-5: Building-up differential homotopy theory 2026, Shinshu University, Japan

Past Events (Selected)

2025

2025/11/21-24: Conference on Topological Data Analysis: Recent Developments and Applications at University of Missouri
2025/8/10-15: BIRS Workshop, Banff (Online participants)
2025/8/4-8/8: Bridging Algebraic Combinatorics, Topology and Applications at Rutgers
2025/7/28-8/1: Collaborate@ICERM, ICERM
2025/7/21-25: MCA 2025, Miami
2025/5/11-16: Dagstuhl Seminar 25201 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
2025/3/6-8: STDC 2025 at CNU

2024

2024/10/19-20: AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting at UAlbany
2024/10/11-13: AISC conference at UNCG
2024/03/23-24: AMS Spring Sectional Meeting at Florida State University
2024/03/11-15: Topology Seminar at UCSB, Santa Barbara
2024/02/25-03/01: Dagstuhl Seminar 24092 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
2024/01: JMM, San Francisco (Talk 1, Talk 2)

2023

2023/Fall: Semester Program at ICERM
2023/07: WinCompTop 3, Bernoulli Center
2023/06: AIM workshop, San Jose
2023/06: SoCG 2023, Dallas
2023/06: GTDAML, Boston
2023/03: AMS special session, Georgia Tech
2023/03: AIM workshop, San Jose
2023/01: JMM, Boston

2022

2022/06: ATMCS, Oxford
2022/06: AWM, UMN
2022/06: SoCG 2022, Berlin
2022/05: MRC, Buffalo

Last updated: February 2026