1. Degrees

· Bachelor of Science: Shanxi normal university, Xi’an, 2007

· Master of Science: Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 2010

· Doctor of Philosophy: University of Eastern Finland, 2013 (CSC)

2. Professional Career after PhD

· Lecturer, Taiyuan University of Technology, December-2013 to July-2014

· Associate professor, Taiyuan University of Technology, Auguest-2014 to November-2018

· Post-doctor, City University of Hong Kong, 3-Oct-2016 to 2-Oct-2017

· Associate professor, Shantou university, November-2018 to December-2021

· Professor, Shantou university, Since January-2021

3. Research funding

· The National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥530,000, 2019-2023

· The National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥216,000, 2016-2018

· The Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, ¥30,000

· The Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Shanxi Province, ¥20,000

4. Publication

· Janne Heittokangas,  Katsuya Ishizaki,  Kazuya Tohge,  Zhi-Tao Wen, Value distribution of exponential polynomials and their role in the theories of complex differential equations and oscillation theory, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 55 (2023), 1-77.

· Heittokangas, Janne; Ishizaki, Katsuya; Tohge, Kazuya; Wen, Zhi-Tao Dual exponential polynomials and a problem of Ozawa. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 152 (2022), no. 3, 701–719.

· Ishizaki, Katsuya; Wen, Zhi-Tao Difference radical in terms of shifting zero and applications to the Stothers-Mason theorem. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 150 (2022), no. 2, 731–745.

· Gundersen, Gary G.; Heittokangas, Janne M.; Wen, Zhi-Tao Contour integral solutions of linear differential equations which include a generalization of the Airy integral. Houston J. Math. 47 (2021), no. 2, 321–351.

· Heittokangas, J.; Wang, J.; Wen, Z. T.; Yu, H. Meromorphic functions of finite  varphi-order and linear q-difference equations. J. Difference Equ. Appl. 27 (2021), no. 9, 1280–1309.

· Heittokangas, Janne; Wen, Zhi-Tao The asymptotic number of zeros of exponential sums in critical strips. Monatsh. Math. 194 (2021), no. 2, 261–273.

· Ishizaki, Katsuya; Wen, Zhi-Tao Binomial series and complex difference equations. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 497 (2021), no. 1, Paper No. 124844, 15 pp.

· Heittokangas, Janne; Ishizaki, Katsuya; Tohge, Kazuya; Wen, Zhi-Tao Zero distribution and division results for exponential polynomials. Israel J. Math. 227 (2018), no. 1, 397–421.

· Wen, Zhi-Tao; Wong, Roderick; Xu, Shuai-Xia Global asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials associated with a generalized Freud weight. Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. B 39 (2018), no. 3, 553–596.

· Wen, Zhi-Tao; Gundersen, Gary G.; Heittokangas, Janne; Dual exponential polynomials and linear differential equations. J. Differential Equations 264 (2018), no. 1, 98–114.

· Korhonen, Risto; Wen, Zhi-Tao; Existence of zero-order meromorphic solutions in detecting q-difference Painlevé equations. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016), no. 7, 4993–5008.

· Wen, Zhi-Tao; Finite order solutions of difference equations, and difference Painleve equations IV. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016) , no. 10, 4247–4260.

5  Research Synopsis

· Differential and difference equations in the complex plane

· Zero distribution of exponential polynomials