Biography

Zi-Xia Song is Professor and Chair of the Math Department at UCF and serves as advisor to both graduate and undergraduate students. She joined UCF in 2005 as an Assistant Professor, teaching a variety of courses, in particular, Graph Theory, and Combinatorics. In 2019, Dr. Song was promoted to Full Professor. She has received two Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) awards, recognizing her excellence in teaching, and one Research Incentive Program (RIA) award, for outstanding research that advances the body of knowledge in the field.

Dr. Song received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization in 2004. Prior to joining UCF, she was a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. Dr. Song’s research interests focus on structural graph theory, extremal graph theory and Ramsey theory. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, in particular, a recent breakthrough on Hadwiger’s Conjecture appeared in Advances in Mathematics. Dr. Song has been awarded grants as a sole Principal Investigator from the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation, where she has also served on several panels.

Dr. Song is an associate editor of Discrete Mathematics, a journal that provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics.