Changying Ding

I am a Hedrick Math Fellow at UCLA, working with Sorin Popa and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko. I finished my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University under Jesse Peterson in 2023.

My CV is available here.

Changying Ding

Publications / Preprints

  1. 8. Structural and non-isomorphism results for $q$-Araki-Woods factors with H. Tan arXiv:2509.21636
  2. 7. Relative solidity for biexact groups in measure equivalence with D. Drimbe arXiv:2503.24167
  3. 6. A unique Cartan subalgebra result for Bernoulli actions of weakly amenable groups arXiv:2404.08182 Journal of Functional Analysis
  4. 5. Biexact von Neumann algebras with J. Peterson arXiv:2309.10161
  5. 4. First $\ell^2$-Betti numbers and proper proximality arXiv:2211.05951 Advances in Mathematics
  6. 3. On the structure of relatively biexact group von Neumann algebras with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli arXiv:2211.05298 Communications in Mathematical Physics
  7. 2. Properly proximal von Neumann algebras with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and J. Peterson arXiv:2204.00517 Duke Mathematical Journal
  8. 1. Proper proximality for various families of groups with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli arXiv:2107.02917 Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

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