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UD math professor is named IMS fellow
2:07 p.m., Sept. 6, 2006--Wenbo Li, University of Delaware professor of mathematical sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a prestigious international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination and application of statistics and probability. Candidates for the honor are selected from the society's 4,000 members around the world based on their demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability and publication of independent work of merit. Li earned the distinction for his research in the theory of Gaussian processes and in using this theory to solve many important problems in diverse areas of probability. "It is a great honor for me to be an elected fellow of the Institute of Li's current research interests are in developing fundamental tools in probability theory to improve the understanding of random phenomena. His research focuses on the study of both typical behaviors and rare events of the type that positive random quantities take smaller values. Li received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1992. He joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UD as an assistant professor the same year. He was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and became full professor in 2002. Li has received research support from the National Science Foundation since 1994. He has authored more than 50 publications, and he is an associate editor for two international journals, The Annals of Probability and Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis. Article by Martin Mbugua |
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