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. 1 2 3 4 "Yuying Li", People profiles, Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science, 10 March 2017, retrieved 2020-02-29
  2. 1 2 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
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