Professor Xingde Jia

After graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from Qufu Teachers' College (now called Qufu Normal University) in Qufu where Confucius was born, Xingde Jia worked as a faculty member in the same department where he received his degree. Even without any advanced degrees, Xingde Jia started to work on some unsolved problems in additive number theory. Later he sent his research result to Dr. Melvyn Nathanson, who was a professor at Rutgers University and an expert in number theory. This is how Xingde Jia came to New York as a young graduate student in 1987 working on his doctoral degree in number theory under the direction of Professor Nathanson. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in May 1990 right before his 30th birthday.

Xingde Jia worked as a Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at Fordham University in New York City for one academic year (September 1989 to June 1990). After receiving his doctoral degree, Xingde Jia joined Texas State University as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in September 1990. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1993, and Professor in 1996.

Professor Jia's research interest is mainly in combinatorial number theory, and computer network theory. He is the author and/or coauthor of about fifty research papers in these areas. Professor Jia also held visiting positions at Fodham University, AT&T Research (Bell Labs), and visited many other universities and research organizations. He has been working with many research grants. In 1993, he was the winner of the University Presidential Award for Research. He is also involved in organizing international conferences in the field of his research. The latest is the upcoming conference on Combinatorial and Addition Number Theory 2005 in New York City.

Professor Jia is also a dedicated teacher. It seems that his students like his teaching a lot. Professor Jia enjoys photography while traveling. He also enjoys talking with people, reading and walking.