Shana Yunsheng Li

Ph.D. Student at
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Nathan Dunfield

Email: yl202illinois.edu

Pronoun: She/Her


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Introduction

Before my Ph.D. studies, I obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees both at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). During my master's studies, I was advised by Stavros Garoufalidis.

Generally speaking, my research interest can be described by the following set of keywords:

Mathematical Physics; Low-dimensional Topology; Quantum Topology; Knot Theory; Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.

Curriculum Vitae

in PDF (last update: Oct. 19, 2025)

Miscellaneous

For the sake of pure entertainment, I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro, with Deep Research enabled, to generate a report on determining the gender of the person in my selfie above (which is me, of course), and saved both its English and Chinese versions. I find the report interesting enough to be posted here, and I leave the rest of the judgement to the reader, if any.