I'm a postdoc fellow at CIRGET based at UQAM (during 2024.9-2026.1 and 2026.6-), mentored by Steven Boyer and Duncan McCoy. Currently I'm an SLMath postdoc fellow (2026.1-2026.5), mentored by Saul Schleimer.
I completed my PhD at University at Buffalo in 2024. My thesis advisor is Xingru Zhang. Here is my CV.
I'm interested in the topics related to left orderable 3-manifold groups, taut foliations and pseudo-Anosov flows of 3-manifolds.
Contact information: bjzhaotopology@gmail.com.
Please note that my previous email address (bojunzha@buffalo.edu) is no longer valid. If you are unable to reach me there, please feel free to contact me at my new address.
My research
Left-orderability in Dehn fillings of pseudo-Anosov mapping tori, preprint (2026), available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04629.
(Joint with Hyungryul Baik and Chenxi Wu) Reconstruction of Anosov flows from infinity, preprint (2024), available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07634.
Co-orientable taut foliations in Dehn fillings of pseudo-Anosov mapping tori with co-orientation-reversing monodromy, Advances in Mathematics, 492 (2026): 110889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2026.110889.
Here are some examples of mapping tori with co-orientation-reversion monodromy (data from Nathan Dunfield). See here for more information.
Left orderability and taut foliations with orderable cataclysm, Mathematical Research Letters, Volume 32 (2025) Number 3. https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.250731180608
Left orderability and taut foliations with one-sided branching, Comment. Math. Helv., online published (2025). https://doi.org/10.4171/cmh/602.
Here is a Pre-recording lightning talk for this work in Tech Topology Conference (2022).
Left orderability, foliations, and transverse (π_1, R) structures for 3-manifolds with sphere boundary, preprint (2021), available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09272.
Extensions of immersions of surfaces into R^3, preprint (2019), available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04294.
The extending surfaces of immersions into surfaces, preprint (2018), available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06245.