Wentian Li

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Wentian Li
Alma mater Columbia University
Known for Bioinformatics, editor of Computational Biology and Chemistry
Scientific career
Institutions The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health
Thesis Problems in complex systems  (1989)

Wentian Li is a bioinformatician. He is co-editor-in-chief of Computational Biology and Chemistry [1] and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology . [2] Li is an investigator at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. [3]

Li received his BS in Physics from Beijing University in 1982 and PhD in Physics and Complex Systems from Columbia University in 1989.

Notable Work

In 1992 Li published a short paper [4] proving that Zipf's law holds for randomly generated sequences of symbols, when the distribution of strings is ordered by rank.

References

  1. ↑ "Computational Biology and Chemistry Editorial Board". Elsevier . Retrieved 2013-01-12.
  2. ↑ "Journal of Theoretical Biology Editorial Board". Elsevier . Retrieved 2013-01-12.
  3. ↑ "Wentian Li, PhD". Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  4. ↑ Li, W. (1992). "Random texts exhibit Zipf's-law-like word frequency distribution". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 38 (6): 1842–1845. doi:10.1109/18.165464.
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