Tang-Kai Lee

I am a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Previously, I was a PhD student at MIT, where I was supervised by Bill Minicozzi. I am interested in differential geometry and partial differential equations.


• Email: lee.tang-kai "at" columbia "dot" edu


• Recent work:

A stable self-shrinking Möbius bundle in ℝ⁴ (with Kahnrad Braxton and Jonathan Zhu).
arXiv (2026).

Almost isoclinic Lagrangian submanifolds (with Mu-Tao Wang).
arXiv (2026).

Non-uniqueness of geodesic limits and a question of Grayson and Gage (with Shrey Aryan).
arXiv (2026).

Closed mean curvature flows with prescribed tangent flows (with Jingwen Chen, Ao Sun, and Xinrui Zhao).
arXiv (2026).

Local mollification of metrics with small curvature concentration (with Man-Chun Lee).
Compos. Math. (2026).

Planarity and convexity for pinched ancient solutions of mean curvature flow (with Keaton Naff and Jingze Zhu).
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations (2026).

Arnold-Thom conjecture for the arrival time of surfaces (with Jingze Zhu).
Duke Math. J. (2026).


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