Assistant Professor Yilong Wang

Yilong Wang

Assistant Professor
Affiliation: BIMSA
Research Field: Tensor Category, Topological Field Theory, Hopf Algebras, Low-Dimensional Topology
Office: A3-3-309
Email: wyl@bimsa.cn
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Biography

Yilong Wang graduated from The Ohio State University in 2018. After working in Louisiana State University as a postdoc researcher, he joined BIMSA as an assistant research fellow in 2021. His research interests include modular tensor categories and topological quantum field theories.

Education Experience

  • 2011 - 2018 | The Ohio State University | Mathematics | Doctor | (Supervisor: Thomas Kerler)
  • 2007 - 2011 | Zhejiang University | Mathematics | Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2021 - -- | BIMSA | Assistant Professor
  • 2018 - 2021 | Louisiana State University | Postdoc
  • 2011 - 2018 | The Ohio State University | Teaching Assistant

Honors and Awards

  • 2015 | Special Graduate Assignments, The Ohio State University | 2015-2017

Publication

  • [1] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, Alterfold Theory and Topological Modular Invariance, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 407 (2026)
  • [2] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, Alterfold Topological Quantum Field Theory, accepted by Science China Mathematics (2026)
  • [3] Liang Chang, Yilong Wang, Saifei Zhai, On the gauge invariance of the Kuperberg invariant of certain high genus framed 3-manifolds, arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19485 (2026)
  • [4] Liang Kong, Yilong Wang, Hao Zheng, Generalized Witt and Morita equivalences, arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02624 (2025)
  • [5] Liang Chang, Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Generalizations of Frobenius-Schur indicators from Kuperberg invariants , arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07409 (2025)
  • [6] Ingo Runkel, Yilong Wang, Open-closed nonsemisimple TFTs (2024)
  • [7] Chongying Dong, Siu-Hung Ng, Li Ren, Yilong Wang, Minimal modular extension of super-Tannakian categories (2024)
  • [8] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, 3-alterfolds and quantum invariants, arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12284 (2023)
  • [9] Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Samuel Wilson, On symmetric representations of $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 151(2023), 4, 1415-1431
  • [10] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, TQFT from 3-alterfold invariants, arXiv:2312.06477(2023)
  • [11] Siu-Hung Ng, Eric C. Rowell, Yilong Wang, Qing Zhang, Higher central charges and Witt groups, Adv. Math., 404(108388) (2022)
  • [12] Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Qing Zhang, Modular Categories with Transitive Galois Actions, Comm. Math. Phys., 390(2022), 3, 1271-1310
  • [13] Eric C. Rowell, Yuze Ruan, Yilong Wang, The Witt classes of so(2r)_2r, Commun. Algebr., 50(12), 5246-5265 (2022)
  • [14] Zheyan Wan, Yilong Wang, Classification of spherical fusion categories of Frobenius-Schur exponent 2, ALGEBRA COLLOQUIUM, 28(1), 39-50 (2021)
  • [15] Yilong Wang, On modular group representations associated to SO(p)2-TQFTs, J. Knot Theory Ramifications, 28(2019), 5
  • [16] Siu-Hung Ng, Andrew Schopieray, Yilong Wang, Higher Gauss sums of modular categories, Sel. Math. (N. S.), 25(2019), 4
  • [17] On integrality of SO(n)-Level-2 TQFTs (2018)
  • [18] Thomas Kerler, Yilong Wang, Random walk invariants from R-matrices, Algebr. Geom. Topol., 16(2016), 1, 569-596
Update Time: 2026-06-21 18:00:08