Biography

Research Interest

• Tensor category, topological field theory, low-dimensional topology

Education Experience

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

Work Experience

• 2026 - -- | BIMSA | Associate Professor
• 2021 - 2026 | BIMSA | Assistant Professor
• 2018 - 2021 | Louisiana State University | Postdoc

Publications

• [1] Ingo Runkel, Yilong Wang, Non-semisimple open-closed 3d TFTs, arXiv:2608.08057 (2026)
• [2] Liang Chang, Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Modular fusion categories with trivial Torelli group actions, arXiv:2608.04462 (2026)
• [3] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, Alterfold Theory and Topological Modular Invariance, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 407 (2026)
• [4] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, Alterfold Topological Quantum Field Theory, Science China Mathematics (2026)
• [5] Liang Chang, Yilong Wang, Saifei Zhai, On the gauge invariance of the Kuperberg invariant of certain high genus framed 3-manifolds, arXiv:2601.19485 (2026)
• [6] Liang Kong, Yilong Wang, Hao Zheng, Generalized Witt and Morita equivalences, arXiv:2511.02624 (2025)
• [7] Liang Chang, Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Generalizations of Frobenius-Schur indicators from Kuperberg invariants , arXiv:2506.07409 (2025)
• [8] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, 3-alterfolds and quantum invariants, arXiv:2307.12284 (2023)
• [9] Zhengwei Liu, Shuang Ming, Yilong Wang, Jinsong Wu, TQFT from 3-alterfold invariants, arXiv:2312.06477(2023)
• [10] Siu-Hung Ng, Yilong Wang, Samuel Wilson, On symmetric representations of $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 151(2023), 4, 1415-1431
• [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] Thomas Kerler, Yilong Wang, Random walk invariants from R-matrices, Algebr. Geom. Topol., 16(2016), 1, 569-596