Yuying Li

This article is about the Chinese-Canadian computer scientist. For the Chinese anarchist and educator, see Li Shizeng.
Yuying LI
EducationUniversity of Waterloo, Ph.D., Mathematics, 1988
OccupationProfessor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School at University of Waterloo

Yuying Li is a Chinese-Canadian professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada.[1] Her research interests include mathematical optimization, scientific computing, data mining, and tail risk in computational finance.[2][3]

Education and career

After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982 from Sichuan University,[1][4] Li completed a PhD at the University of Waterloo,[1] in 1988. Her dissertation, An Efficient Algorithm for Nonlinear Minimax Problems, was supervised by Andrew Conn.[5]

She worked as a researcher at Cornell University[2] before returning to Waterloo as a faculty member.[1]

Recognition

Li was the 1993 winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Yuying Li", People profiles, Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science, 10 March 2017, retrieved 2020-02-29
  2. ^ a b Avellaneda, Marco, ed. (2001), "The Contributors", Quantitative Analysis In Financial Markets: Collected Papers Of The New York University Mathematical Finance Seminar, Volume 2, World Scientific, p. xii, ISBN 9789814493567
  3. ^ Gallagher, Beth (February 12, 2013), "Waterloo computer scientist warns banks and investment firms to expect the unexpected", Waterloo stories, University of Waterloo, retrieved 2020-02-29
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae, Cornell University, August 19, 1997, retrieved 2020-03-01
  5. ^ Yuying Li at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, retrieved 2020-02-29