Shi Cheng

BIO

Shi Cheng is an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS). Before joining SIMIS, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Fudan University. He obtained his Ph.D in physics at University of Warsaw in 2022.

Professor Cheng’s current research interests mainly foucs on supersymmetric gauge theories and related low-dimensional manifolds.

Education Experience

• 2019-2022 University of Warsaw, Physics, Doctor

Work Experience

• 2024- SIMIS, Assistant Professor
• 2022-2024 Fudan University, Postdoc

Honors and Awards

Publications

1. S. Cheng, Surgery and matter for 3d Theories, [arXiv:2310.07624].
2. S. Cheng and P. Sułkowski, 3d N = 2 theories and plumbing graphs: adding matter, gauging, and new dualities, JHEP 08 (2023) 136, [arXiv:2302.13371].
3. S. Cheng, 3d N = 2 Brane Webs and Quiver Matrices, JHEP 07 (2022) 107, [arXiv:2108.03696].
4. S. Cheng and P. Sułkowski, Refined open topological strings revisited, Phys.Rev.D 104, 106012 (2021) [arXiv:2104.00713].
5. S. Cheng, Mirror Symmetry and Mixed Chern-Simons Levels for Abelian 3d N = 2 theories, Phys.Rev.D 104, 046011(2021), [arXiv:2010.15074].
6. S. Cheng and S.-S. Kim, Refined topological vertex for a 5d sp(n) gauge theories with antisymmetric matter, Phys.Rev.D 104, 086004 (2021), [arXiv:1809.00629].
7. S. Cheng, F. J. Xu and F. Z. Yang, Off-shell D-brane/F-theory effective superpotentials and Ooguri–Vafa invariants of several compact Calabi–Yau manifolds, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 29, no. 12, 1450061 (2014), [arXiv:1303.3318].