We are studying a simple problem: what are the properties of the support of a process when a dynamical system involves a bounded perturbation?
It is foreseeable that this problem is not only a natural mathematical question but also a common phenomenon in physics, science, and engineering. Currently, we are focusing on several directions:
(i) By studying how the boundary of a set evolves through the boundary map, we aim to understand the properties of set-valued dynamical systems.
(ii) How does topological bifurcation occur under changes in different parameters?
(iii) We are attempting to prove that the system is asymptotically periodic.
General Iterated Graph Systems is a model where, given prefixed rule graphs, graph fractals can be constructed through iterative vertex substitution or edge substitution.
At first glance, you might find this model quite natural and simple, but if you are willing to take a minute to think deeply, a hundred questions arise that need to be answered: combinatorial properties, fractal dimensions, random walks, statistical physics...
Perhaps we should be more astonished by the fact that human beings do not yet know all the answers to these questions.
On my GitHub profile (https://github.com/Nero-17) you can find Python packages for
(1) graphs and networks: fractal dimensions, percolation and random walks;
(2) generating fractal graphs arising from Iterated Graph Systems;
(3) simulating Inhomogeneous-Radius Bounded-Noise systems, including set-valued maps and boundary maps.
(with Thomas Britz & Frank Xin Hu) Reducible Iterated Graph Systems: multiscale-freeness and multifractals, submitted, 2025
Issue Cover Image Paper: Ziyu Neroli, Fractal dimensions for iterated graph systems, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2024, [News report by the Royal Society in Chinese]
(with Thomas Britz) On the scale-freeness of random colored substitution networks, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2024
Z. Li, J. Yao, Q. Wang, Fractality of multiple colored substitution networks, Physica A, 2019
Z. Li, Z. Yu, L. Xi, Scale-free effect of substitution networks, Physica A, 2018
N. Z. Li, X. Zhai, Z. Shi, B. Shi, X. Jiang, Fractal Graph Contrastive Learning, submitted, 2025
Heilbronn Scholarship
PhD fully funded by Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (for UK residents) and Imperial College London (international fee difference) (EP/V521917/1); also by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Mathematics of Random Systems (EP/S023925/1) at Mathematical Institute of University of Oxford.
New World Mathematics Award
Gold Medal in New World Mathematics Awards (NWMA) 2017 held by Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau (2 gold medals and 3 silver medals awarded globally during 2017-2019).
2024 Talk at Geometry and Fractals under the Midnight Sun, Oulu University, Finland; Talk at Heilbronn Annual Conference, Bristol.
2023 Attended workshop in honour of Peter Baxendale, University of Warwick; CDT summer school, Kyoto University, Japan; CHAOS workshop in Nesin Math Village, Turkey; 1-hour talk at Open University, UK.
2022 Attended ICM 2022 overlay, Imperial College; Heilbronn summer workshop at ICMS, University of Edinburgh; Durham Symposium; UK-Japan Winter School.
2019 Talk at ACCMCC2019, UNSW, Australia; Invited to the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians 2019 and NWMA Ceremony.
2017 Invited to China Fractal and Dynamical System Academic Conference 2017.