Yuying LI | |
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| Education | University of Waterloo, Ph.D., Mathematics, 1988 |
| Occupation | Professor 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]
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]
Li was the 1993 winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis. [6]
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