Welcome to Ruodu Wang's Homepage
Miscellaneous
Personal
I was a competitive Starcraft Player in China.
National Third-place of card game Sanguosha in China, 2009.
One of my Starcraft II game videos has more than 700,000 views (by 2011) on YouTube.
(the most viewed Starcraft II game video by the end of 2011.)
My Erdös number is 3: Ruodu Wang <- Ričardas Zitikis <- Endre Csáki <- Paul Erdös
Travel
Traveller's map (updated: September 2023)
Countries and territories (updated: October 2025)
| East Asia | China, South Korea, Russia, North Korea, Mongolia |
| West Asia | Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, UAE, Qatar |
| Southeast Asia | Singapore |
| Central Asia | Kazakhstan |
| North America | Canada, USA, Mexico |
| Central America | Cayman Islands, Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Panama |
| South America | Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia |
| Africa | Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana |
| Northern Europe | Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia |
| Western Europe | Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, Austria, Liechtenstein |
| Eastern Europe | Czech, Poland, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia |
| Southern Europe | Italy, Spain, Greece, Vatican City, Portugal |
| Oceania | Australia |
| Antarctica | Antarctica |
Statistics (updated: October 2025)
Number of countries visited: 61
Number of countries where academic lectures were given: 20
Approximate time spent in each of the seven continents (2023):
Random Stuff
PHD comics. Feel better about your own PhD life by looking at others'.
How to finish a Ph.D. by Matthias Schonlau at the University of Waterloo.
The grammar according to West, tips for mathematical writing in English, by Douglas West at the University of Illinois.
Ruodu Wang's suggestions for writing mathematics. Compared to the tips of West, this article is written with young scholars in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research and Finance in mind.