Changying Ding
ABOUT
Starting July 2023, I will be working with Sorin Popa and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko as a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA. I finished my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University under Jesse Peterson in 2023. My CV is available here.
I am interested in operator algebras, geometric group theory, ergodic theory and operator space theory.

Publications/Preprints:
- First
-Betti numbers and proper proximality, arXiv:2211.05951.
- An upgrading theorem for properly proximal von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli), arXiv: 2211.05298.
- Properly proximal von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and J. Peterson), arXiv: 2204.00517, to appear in Duke Mathematical Journal.
- Proper proximality for various families of groups (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli), arXiv: 2107.02917.
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