Ph. D, Peking University, 1999
B. S., Tsinghua University, 1994

Three dimensional geometric topology; knot invariants; geometric group theory. (MathSciNet)

1. Z. Bao, Introduction to General Topology and Algebraic Topology. ISBN 978-7-301-23060-2. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013. (text book in Chinese)
2. Z. Bao, Z. Lu. Manifolds associated with (Z2)n+1-colored regular graphs. Forum Math. 24, 2012.
3. Z. Bao, The compressibility of checkerboard surfaces of link diagrams. Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.) 23 (2007), no. 10, 1845–1858.
4. Z. Bao, Maximum order of periodic outer automorphisms of a free group. J. Algebra 224 (2000), no. 2, 437–453.