Background
April 1964, Ji was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
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April 1964, Ji was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Ji graduated Bachelor of Science from Hangzhou University (previous and current Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou in 1984. In 1991, Ji obtained Doctor of Philosophy from the Northeastern University (doctoral advisors: R Mark Goresky and Shing-Tung Yau).
He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1984 to 1985, Ji was a master student at the Department of Mathematics of Hangzhou University. Ji went to United States of America to continue his study in 1985, and in 1987 Ji obtained Mississippi from the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, San Diego.
From 1991 to 1994, Ji was C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Department of Mathematics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1995 to 1999, Ji was an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan (University of Malaya).
From 1999 to 2005, Ji was an associate professor at the same department. In 2005, Ji was promoted to full professor at University of Malaya.
An editor of the Asian Journal of Mathematics
An editor of Science in China, Series A: Mathematics
A founding editor and chief editor of Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
One of the chief-editors of a book series on Popular Mathematics Mathematics and Humanities.
From 1994 to 1995, Ji was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics in Princeton, New Jersey.