Chunwei Song

Chunwei Song is a Chinese mathematician who specializes in combinatorics, graph theory and intellectual history. He has been working as a professor of mathematics at the Peking University. Prior to Peking University, Song held visiting faculty positions at Boston College, Massachusetts and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. In 2010, he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Delaware.

Education

Song received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania, with the dissertation Combinational Theory of $q,t$-Schröder Polynomials, Parking Functions and Trees under the supervision of Professor James Haglund.

Research contributions

Song is the author of Lattice Path Combinatorics and Special Counting Sequences: From an Enumerative Perspective, CRC Press, Boca Raton, ISBN: ‎978-1032671758.

Coauthored with Chen Dayue (陈大岳) and Xu Zhongqin (许忠勤), Song is a main editor of the tribute Ding Shisun and Chinese Mathematics 丁石孙与中国数学.

Song also has scholarly interests in Chinese and East Asian intellectual history. He is the author of Heroes Brought Buddhism to the East of the Sea: A Fully Annotated Translation of The Preface of Haedong Kosŭng Chŏn, Sino-Platonic Papers 183.

Academic talks

In 2014, Song gave a talk at Academia Sinica on the Art of Lattice Path Combinatorics and Combinatorial Statistics.

In 2021, Song gave an invited talk at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME 14) at its Thematic Afternoon activities.

In 2022, he gave a Plenary Address at the 11th National Forum on Mathematics Culture organized by the Chinese Mathematical Society.

Editorial boards

Song is on the editorial boards of Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications, Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics, Frontiers of Mathematics, and a few other academic journals.

Ph.D. students

By 2024, Song has supervised seven doctoral students in the field of mathematics at Peking University, including one (Dr. Yong Zhang, with the dissertation A Study on the Early History of Homotopy Theory: From Brouwer to Hurewicz) on mathematical history coadvised with Prof. Wu Guosheng 吴国盛.

Recognition and influences

Song was a Council Member of both the 12th and the 13th Councils of the Chinese Mathematical Society.

In 2023, Song became an elected delegate of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.

As a scholar, he contributes opinion pieces to prominent media outlets such as Phoenix Weekly, Southern Metropolis Daily, and The Daily Pakistan. His writings engage diverse audiences across various countries, offering insightful and impactful perspectives on a wide range of themes.