Li, Jiakai


Email: [last name]jk[at]stanford[dot]edu

(My Harvard email address is no longer active.)

I am a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University in May 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Kronheimer.

My research interests are gauge theory, Floer homology, and low-dimensional topology. In particular, I use Seiberg-Witten theory to study knots and knotted surfaces.


Publications and Preprints

• Multi-framed real monopole Floer theory, arXiv (2026).

• Real monopoles and a spectral sequence from Khovanov homology, arXiv (2024).

• Monopole invariants for webs and foams, arXiv (2023).

• Real monopole Floer homology and skein exact triangles, arXiv (2023).

• Monopole Floer homology and real structures, arXiv (2022).

• No growth-gaps for special cube complexes (with Daniel T. Wise), Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 14 (2020), no.1, pp. 117 - 135.