Changying Ding

I am a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA, working with Sorin Popa and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko.
I finished my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University under Jesse Peterson in 2023.

My CV is available here and I’m currently on the job market.

Publications/Preprints

  1. Structural and non-isomorphism results for q-Araki-Woods factors (with H. Tan)
    arxiv:2509.21636
  2. Relative solidity for biexact groups in measure equivalence (with D. Drimbe)
    arxiv:2503.24167
  3. A unique Cartan subalgebra result for Bernoulli actions of weakly amenable groups
    arXiv:2404.08182, Journal of Functional Analysis
  4. Biexact von Neumann algebras (with J. Peterson)
    arXiv:2309.10161
  5. First \ell^2-Betti numbers and proper proximality
    arXiv:2211.05951, Advances in Mathematics
  6. On the structure of relatively biexact group von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli)
    arXiv:2211.05298, Communications in Mathematical Physics
  7. Properly proximal von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and J. Peterson)
    arXiv:2204.00517, Duke Mathematical Journal
  8. Proper proximality for various families of groups (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli)
    arXiv:2107.02917, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Contact

cding@math.ucla.edu