Professor Wenbo V. Li started his professional career at the University of Delaware in 1992 immediately after his Ph.D.
and moved through the ranks to Full Professor in 2002. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (IMS) with citation for distinguished research in the theory of Gaussian processes and in using this theory to
solve many important problems in diverse areas of probability
.
Professor Li has contributed extensively to probabilistic aspects of geometric functional analysis, high dimensional probability, Gaussian processes/fields, stochastic inequalities, and small deviation/value probabilities and their applications. His current research interests involve probability estimates of rare events, and also related stochastic modeling and probabilistic analysis.
Professor Li is also actively engaged in other national and international activities. He has served as Associate Editors for four international journals. He served as Chair (09-10) and member (07-09) of the IMS Committee on Travel Awards, and also as a co-organizer or co-editor of meetings and conferences over 15 times.
Last but not least, Professor Li is an outstanding speaker. In the past five years alone, he has delivered over 100 talks at major international conferences, schools, and workshops to promote the use of probabilistic methods and analysis. He is widely known as a lecturer who conveys an unbounded and infectious enthusiasm for his subject.