Welcome to Dr. Xiande Zhang's Homepage

 Xiande(先得) Zhang(张)
Affiliations:
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Science and Technology of China

Office:
Room 506
New Building of School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Science and Technology of China
No. 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
Email: drzhangx@ustc.edu.cn

Short Biography:

I am a Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). From 2009 to 2015, as a Research Fellow, I spent five years in Yeow Meng Chee's group at the Nanyang Technological University and one year in Ian M. Wanless's group at Monash University. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2009 from Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Gennian Ge. For more information please see my Curriculum Vitae.

I am also a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group of Combinatorics and Information Theory (组合数学与信息交叉科学研究团队). We are looking for motivated postdoctoral researchers or doctoral students keen in working on combinatorial design theory or coding theory. Interested candidates are welcome to send your resume to Prof Gennian Ge (gnge@zju.edu.cn) or me to apply.

Research Interests:

Combinatorial design theory such as Steiner systems, Room squares, group divisible designs and Latin squares; Combinatorial structures or decompositions of graphs with applications in bioinformatics, network, data storage, coding theory and quantum information theory

Awards and Professional duties:

  • Kirkman Medal for year 2012
  • On Editorial borad of Journal of Combiantorial Designs
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    • Selected Journal Papers（Full list）:

    1. F. Shi, X. Zhang, and L. Chen, "Unextendible product bases from tile structures and their local entanglement-assisted distinguishability," Phys. Rev. A 101, 062329, 22 June 2020. [PDF]
    2. Z. Ye, T. Zhang, X. Zhang and G. Ge, "Some New Results on Splitter Sets," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol 66, no 5, pp: 2765-2776, 2020.[PDF]
    3. X. Zhang, "Short k-radius sequences, k-difference sequences and universal cycles," J. Combin. Des, online, 09 March 2020.[PDF]
    4. X. Zhang, "Suitable sets of permutations, packings of triples, and Ramsey’s theorem," European Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 83, January 2020. [PDF]
    5. Y. M. Chee, F. Gao, H. M. Kiah, A. C. H. Ling, H. Zhang, and X. Zhang, "Decompositions of edge-colored digraphs: a new technique in the construction of constant-weight codes and related families," SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 209–229, 2019. [PDF]
    6. Y. M. Chee and X. Zhang, "Optimal q-Ary Error Correcting/All Unidirectional Error Detecting Codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 64, No 8, 2018, pp. 5806-5812. [PDF]
    7. Y. M. Chee and X. Zhang, "Linear Size Constant-Composition Codes Meeting the Johnson Bound," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 64, No 2, 2018, pp. 909-917. [PDF]
    8. T. Zhang, X. Zhang and G. Ge, "Splitter Sets and k-Radius Sequences," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 63, No 12, 2017, pp 7633-7645. [PDF]
    9. Y. M. Chee, H. M. Kiah, H. Zhang and X. Zhang, "Constructions of Optimal and Near-Optimal Multiply Constant-Weight Codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 63, No 6, 2017, pp.3621--3629. [PDF]
    10. Y. M. Chee, H. Zhang and X. Zhang, "Complexity of dependencies in bounded domains, Armstrong codes, and generalizations," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No 02, 2015, pp. 812--819. [PDF]
    11. Y. M. Chee, H. M. Kiah, H. Zhang and X. Zhang, "Optimal codes in the Enomoto-Katona space," Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, Vol. 24, No 02, 2015, pp. 382--406. [PDF]
    12. L. Jin, C. Xing and X. Zhang, "On the list-decodability of random self-orthogonal codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No 02, 2015, pp. 820--828. [PDF]
    13. B. D. McKay, I. M. Wanless and X. Zhang, "The order of automorphisms of quasigroups," J. Combin. Des., Vol. 23, No 7, 2015, pp. 275--288. [PDF]
    14. I. M. Wanless and X. Zhang, "Transversals of latin squares and covering radius of sets of permutations," European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 37, No 7, 2013, pp. 1130--1143. [PDF]
    15. Y. M. Chee and X. Zhang, "Improved constructions of frameproof codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 58, No 8, 2012, pp. 5449--5453. [PDF]
    16. H. Zhang, X. Zhang and G. Ge, "Optimal ternary constant-weight codes with weight four and distance five," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 58, No 5, 2012, pp. 2706--2718. [PDF]
    17. Y. M. Chee, S. Ling, Y. Tan and X. Zhang, "Universal cycles for minimum coverings of pairs by triples, with application to 2-radius sequences," Math. Comp., Vol. 81, No. 277, 2012, pp. 585--603. [PDF]
    18. J.-C. Bermond, Y. M. Chee, N. Cohen and X. Zhang, "The alpha-arboricity of complete uniform hypergraphs," SIAM J. Discrete Math., Vol. 34, No. 2, 2011, pp. 600--610. [PDF]
    19. X. Zhang and G. Ge, "Existence of resolvable H-designs with group sizes 2, 3, 4 and 6," Des. Codes Cryptogr., Vol. 55, No 1, pp.81--101, 2010. [PDF]
    20. G. Ge, Y. Miao and X. Zhang, "On block sequences of Steiner quadruple systems with error correcting consecutive unions," SIAM J. Discrete Math., Vol. 23, No 2, pp.940--958, 2009. [PDF]

    Teaching:

  • 2017: Combinatorics
  • 2018: Linear Algebra; Combinatorics
  • 2019: Linear Algebra; Combinatorics
  • 2020: Selected topics in graph theory and combinatorics; Designs and codes
  • 2021: Linear Algebra; Combinatorics

    • Some useful links:

  • arXiv
  • Google Scholar