Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Riverside
Area of Research
Differential Geoemtry and Mathematical General Relativity
Awards, Honors, and Grants
• Best Paper Award, Gold Award, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, 2025
Awarded for the paper “Evolution of Angular Momentum and Center of Mass at Null Infinity.” This award recognizes outstanding mathematical research papers that demonstrate exceptional innovation, depth, and impact in the field of mathematics.
• Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, 2023
Awarded for the paper “Supertranslation invariance of angular momentum.” This award recognizes scientific work of the highest value and originality that has made a significant impact in its field.
• Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant #584785, “Quasi-local Energy in General Relativity and Its Application”, 2018–2023
• Tensor-SUMMA Grants (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement), 2018–2019, 2019–2020, 2020–2021
• Mini-grant, NSF INCLUDES: WATCH US (Women Achieving Through Community Hubs) in the US, 2018–2019
• Best Paper Award, Gold Award, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, 2017
• NSF grant DMS-1308164 (PI), “Problems in Mathematical General Relativity”, 2013–2017
• New World Mathematics Awards, Silver Prize of Doctoral Thesis, 2011
Professional Service
• Nomination Committee, Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, 2025 and 2026
• Co-organizer, Special Session "Dynamics of Solutions to Wave Equations," AMS Sectional Meeting, 2024
• Subject Committee, Best Paper Award, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, 2018–2021
• Co-organizer, UCI-UCR-UCSD Joint Differential Geometry Seminar, 2016–2021
• Co-organizer, Special Session "Partial Differential Equations and General Relativity," AMS Sectional Meeting, 2019
• Co-organizer, Workshop on The Mathematics of Gravitational Radiation, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, 2019
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Isometric Embedding and Quasilocal Mass, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, 2018
• Co-organizer, Special Session "Geometric Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications," AMS Sectional Meeting, 2017
University and Public Service
• Faculty Workgroup, California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC), 2023–2026
Cal-GETC is the new transfer pathway (starting Fall 2025) for California Community College (CCC) students to transfer to both the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC).
• Faculty Workgroup, California Common Course Numbering (CCN), 2024–2026
CCN is a new student-facing system (Fall 2027) to create common course numbers for comparable courses across all community colleges in California, facilitating smoother transfers to four-year institutions and reducing unnecessary credit accumulation.
• Committee on Privilege and Tenure (P&T), UC Riverside Academic Senate, 2025–present
P&T investigates grievances, reviews disciplinary cases, and evaluates disputes over early termination.
• University Committee on Preparatory Education (UCOPE), UC Systemwide Academic Senate, Chair 2024–2025; Member, 2022–2025
UCOPE advises the Academic Senate and University president on matters related to student preparation for undergraduate study.
• Committee on Preparatory Education, UC Riverside Academic Senate, Chair 2022–2023; Member 2020–2023
• Executive Council, UC Riverside Academic Senate, 2022–2023
Advises the UC Riverside Chancellor and Academic Senate Division Chair on multi-committee policies.
• Faculty Adviser, Advanced Mathematics Program, UC Riverside, 2017–2021
Contact Information:
Address:
226 Skye Hall
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-3507
Email: poningc (at) math.ucr.edu