I am a Visiting Assistant Professor (postdoc) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rochester. I work under the supervision of Stephen Kleene.
From 2024 to 2025, I worked at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a postdoctoral researcher. My supervisor was Martin Man-chun Li.
I received my Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2024. My advisors were Luca Spolaor and Bennett Chow.
Office: 1017 Hylan Building
Email: gniu3 (at) ur (dot) rochester (dot) edu
I am interested in geometric variational problems, regularity theory for geometric PDEs, and the singular behavior of geometric objects.
Isoperimetry of Singular CMC Hypersurfaces, 2026. arxiv
A quantitative inequality for general area-minimizing hypercones, 2026. arxiv
Generic Uniqueness of Isoperimetric Regions in Arbitrary Dimension, 2026. arxiv
Strict Stability and Strict Minimality of Regular Area-Minimizing Hypercones: A Quantitative Characterization, 2026. arxiv
Generic regularity of isoperimetric regions in dimension eight (with Kobe Marshall-Stevens and Davide Parise), 2025. arxiv
Existence of singular isoperimetric regions, 2023. arxiv Note: This preprint contains an additional higher-dimensional generalization (Theorem 1.3 and Section 5)
Isoperimetry by stretching (with Kobe Marshall-Stevens). International Mathematics Research Notices, 2026, rnag209. [DOI]
Existence of singular isoperimetric regions in 8-dimensional manifolds. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations 63, 144 (2024). [DOI]
University of Rochester
MATH 265 — Real Analysis I
MATH 165 — Linear Algebra with Differential Equations
University of Rochester
MATH 282 — Introduction to Complex Analysis
MATH 165 — Linear Algebra with Differential Equations