Education

Ph.D.	Combinatorics	University of California, San Diego	2002
M.S.	Mathematics	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	1999
M.S.	Computer Science	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	1999
B.S.	Mathematics	Nankai University, Tianjin, China	1991

Experience

2018 -- Present	Department Chair	University of South Carolina
2013 -- present	Professor	University of South Carolina
2009 -- 2013	Associate Professor	University of South Carolina
2004 -- 2009	Assistant Professor	University of South Carolina
2002 -- 2004	Postdoc	University of California, San Diego

Courses Taught:

• Math 141: Calculus I
• Math 142: Calculus II
• Math 198: Introduction to Careers and Research in the Mathematical Sciences
• Math 241: Vector Calculus
• Math 242: Elemetary Differential Equations
• Math 374: Discrete Structures
• Math 526: Numerical Linear Algebra
• Math 570: Discrete Optimization
• Math 574: Discrete Mathematics
• Math 576: Combinatorial Game Theory
• Math 776: Graph Theory I
• Math 777: Graph Theory II
• Math 778: Topic Courses in Discrete Mathematics
  • Probabilistic Methods
  • Spectral Graph Theory
  • Large Networks and Graph Limits
  • Extreme Graph Theory

Research

Dr. Lu is well-known nationally and internationally for his research work on large information networks, sparse random graphs, probabilistic methods, extremal problems on hypergraphs and posets, spectral graph/hypergraph theory, Ramsey type problems, Discrete Geometry, and other problems in graph theory. He has published 1 book, 2 book chapters, 70 Journal papers, and 13 conference papers. He was invited to give lecture series internationally four times,  twelve 45-minutes talks at national and international  conferences, and twenty-seven colloquium/seminar talks at other universities, and forty-eight 25-minute talks at various conferences and workshops. He has been supported by 6 NSF grants and 2 ONR grants.  According to Google Scholar, Dr. Lu has 9599 citations with h-index 29 and i10-index 58. He had solved a $100-prized Erdos problem.

Extermal Grants:  NSF DMS 2038080, ONR N00014-17-1-2842, NSF DMS-1600811, NSF DMS-1300547, ONR N00014-13-1-0717, NSF DUE-CCLI-1020692, NSF DMS-1000475, and NSF DMS-0701111.

Selected publications:

Book and book chapters:

• Fan Chung and Linyuan Lu, Complex graphs and networks, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics; number 107, (2006), 264+vii pages. ISBN-10: 0-8218-3657-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-3657-6.
• Linyuan Lu,  Austin Mohr, and Laszlo Szekely, Quest for Negative Dependency Graphs, in Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of Konstantin Oskolkov (Eds. D. Bilyk, L. DeCarli, A. Petukhov, A. M. Stokolos, B. D. Wick), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, (2012) 243-258.
• William Aiello, Fan Chung, and Linyuan Lu. Random evolution in massive graphs, in Handbook on Massive Data Sets, (Eds. James Abello et al.), (2002) 97–122.

Recent Journal papers:

•  Linyuan Lu, Matthew H.Y. Xie, Arthur L.B. Yang, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of fan matroids, wheel matroids and whirl matroids, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 192, November 2022, 105665
• Mark Ellingham, Linyuan Lu,  Zhiyu Wang,  Maximum spectral radius of outerplanar 3-uniform hypergraphs, Journal of Graph Theory, 100, Issue 4, (2022), pp 671-685.
• Linyuan Lu and Jushua Thompson, Poset Ramsey Numbers for Boolean Lattices, Order, 39 (2022), 171–185.
• Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, Turán Density of 2-Edge-Colored Bipartite Graphs with Application on {2,3}-Hypergraphs, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 28 Issue 3 (2021), P3.42.
•  Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang,  On the cover Turán number of Berge hypergraphs, European Journal of Combinatorics, 98, December 2021, 103416.
•  Linyuan Lu and  Zhiyu Wang, On Hamiltonian Berge cycles in [3]-uniform hypergraphs, Discrete Mathematics 344, Issue 8, August 2021, 112462
• David Cushing, Riikka Kangaslampi, Yong Lin, Shiping Liu, Linyuan Lu, Shing-Tung Yau,Ricci-flat cubic graphs with girth five, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, 29 (7)  (2021), 1559 – 1570.
• Alice L. L. Gao, Linyuan Lu, Matthew H. Y. Xie, Arthur L. B. Yang, Philip B. Zhang, The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of uniform matroids, Advances in Applied Mathematics, 122 (2021), 102117.
• Liying Kang, Lele Liu, Linyuan Lu, Zhiyu Wang, The extremal p-spectral radius of Berge- hypergraphs, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 610, (2021) 608-624.
• Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, Anti-Ramsey Number of Edge-Disjoint Rainbow Spanning Trees, SIAM J. Discrete Math., 34(4), (2020) 2346-2362.
• Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On the cover Ramsey number of Berge hypergraphs, Discrete Mathematics, 343(9), (2020), 111972.
• Mohammad Ali Javidian, Linyuan Lu, Marco Valtorta, Zhiyu Wang, On a hypergraph probabilistic graphical model, Annals of Mathematics and Articial Intelligence  88 (2020), 1003-1033.
• Lele Liu and Linyuan Lu, The α-normal labeling method for computing the p-spectral radii of uniform hypergraphs, Linear and Multilinear Algebra, published online on May 2020.
• Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, Spectral radius of {0, 1}-tensor with prescribed number of ones, Linear Algebra Appl. 558 (2018), 205-235.
• Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On the size-Ramsey number of tight paths. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 32 (2018), no. 3, 2172-2179.
• Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, A Bound on the Spectral Radius of Hypergraphs with e Edges, Linear Algebra Appl., 549, (2018), 203-218.