Shengkui Ye

Shengkui Ye is Associate Area Head of Mathematics and a Professor of Practice in Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. Previously, he was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research lies in topology and geometric group theory. In particular, he is interested in group actions on manifolds and non-positively curved spaces.  

Select Publications

• Shengkui Ye, “Symmetries of flat manifolds, Jordan property and the general Zimmer program“, Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Volume 100, Issue 3 (2019) 1065-1080
• Shengkui Ye, “Euler characteristics and actions of automorphism groups of free groups”, Algebraic & Geometric Topology. 18 (2018) 1195–1204
• Shengkui Ye, “Low-dimensional representations of matrix groups and group actions on CAT(0) spaces and manifolds”, Journal of Algebra. 409 (2014) 219-243
• Shengkui Ye, “A unified approach to the plus-construction, Bousfield localization, Moore spaces and zero-in-the-spectrum examples”. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 192 (2012) 699-717
• Xiaolei Wu, Shengkui Ye, “Splitting and Poly-freeness of triangle Artin groups”,  Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 378, Number 7, July 2025, Pages 4707–4737.

Education

• PhD, Mathematics
  National University of Singapore
• BSc, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
  Harbin Institute of Technology