1. MSc, Shanxi Normal University, China, completed in 2005

2. PhD, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, completed in 2008

1. 01/2021-12/2024 Host a project “Edge transitive bi-Cayley graphs and its application in symmetry of graphs” which is sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 12071023)
   
2. 01/2017-12/2020 Host a project “Symmetry of bi-Cayley graphs and its application” which is sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 11671030)
3. 01/2013-12/2016 Host a project “Symmetries of graphs and networks” which is sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 11271012)
4. 01/2010-12/2012 Host a project “Symmetries of graphs and embeddings of graph into surfaces” which is sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 10901015)

My research interests focus on the following areas: finite p-groups, permutation groups, symmetry of combinatorial structures including graphs, maps and networks. 

Selected Publications

1. Two geodesic-transitive graphs of order $p^n$ with $n\leq 3$, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 202 (2024) 105814. (with Jun-Jie Huang, Yan-Quan Feng, Fu-Gang Yin)
   

2. On automorphism groups of bi-quasiprimitive $2$-arc-transitive graphs,  Journal of Algebra 620 (2023) 344-362.
   

3. Finite $3$-connected-set-homogeneous locally $2\K_n$ graphs and $s$-arc-transitive graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 159 (2023) 140-174 . 
   

4. Prime-valent symmetric graphs with a quasi-semiregular automorphism, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 159 (2023) 101-125. (With Yan-Quan Feng, Fu-Gang Yin, A-Hui Jia)

5. Locally bi-2-transitive graphs and cycle-regular graphs, and the answer to a 2001 problem posed by Fouquet and Hahn,  Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 158 (2023) 206-225 . (With Marston Conder)

6. On primitive 2-closed permutation groups of rank at most four,  Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 158 (2023) 176-205 . (With Michael Guidici, Luke Morgan)

7. A solution of Li-Xia’s problem on s-arc-transitive solvable Cayley graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B149 (2021) 147-160.
   

8. Finite 3-set-homogeneous graphs, European Journal of Combinatorics 93 (2021) 103275. 
   

9. Stability of graph pairs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 147 (2021) 71-95. (With Yan-Li Qin, Binzhou Xia,Sanming Zhou)
   

10. Arc-transitive Cayley graphs on non-abelian simple groups with prime valency, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 177 (2021) 105303.(with Yan-Quan Feng, Fu-Gang Yin, Shan-Shan Chen) 

11. Edge-transitive bi-Cayley graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 145 (2020) 264-306. (With Marston Conder, Yan-Quan Feng, Mi-Mi Zhang) 

12. On k-connected-homogeneous graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 173 (2020) 105234. (With Alice Devillers, Joanna Fawcett, Cheryl Praeger ) 

13. On generalized truncations of complete graphs, Ars Mathematics Contemporanea 19 (2020) 325-335. (With Xue Wang, Fu-Gang Yin) 

14. Weakly symmetric graphs of order twice a prime square, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 155 (2018) 458-475. (With Mi-Mi Zhang)

15. Weak metacirculants of odd prime power order, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 155 (2018) 225-243. (With Sanming Zhou)

16. Edge-transitive almost self-complementary graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 123 (2017) 215-239. 

17. Tetravalent half-arc-transitive p-graphs, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 44 (2016) 947-971.

18. Cayley digraphs of 2-genetic groups of odd prime power, Journal of Combinatorial Theorey, Series A 143 (2016) 88-106. (With Yi Wang, Yan-Quan Feng)

19. The automorphisms of bi-Cayley graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 116 (2016) 504-532. (With Yan-Quan Feng)

20. Edge-transitive dihedral or cyclic covers of cubic symmetric graphs of order 2p, Combinatorica 34 （2014）115-128. (with Yan-Quan Feng)

1.  Excellent paper, Beijing Operation Research Society, 2012

2.  My paper, Tetravalent s-transitive graphs of order twice a prime power, published in Vol 88 (2010), 277—288 of the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, is one of seven papers short-listed for the 2016 Mahoney-Neumann-Room Prize. The Mahoney-Neumann-Room Prize for a given year is awarded to the best paper appearing in one of the Society’s journals the previous six years.)