Hi, I'm Zi Li! Welcome to my personal website!
I am a fifth year mathematics PhD student at UCLA. My advisor is Terence Tao. I am mainly interested in analytic number theory and additive combinatorics.
I am on the job market now!
Email: zililim[at]math.ucla.edu (replace [at] with the appropriate symbol)
Research:
On the density version of quadratic Waring's problem and the quadratic Waring--Goldbach problem, submitted
Uniform nonlinear Szemerédi theorem for corners in finite fields, submitted
Three term rational function progressions in finite fields, with Guo-Dong Hong, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 10 (2025)