Wentian Li
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 was not a deep law in natural language, but rather that any randomly generated sequence of symbols would exhibit Zipf's Law if you looked at the distribution of words by rank.
References
- ^ "Computational Biology and Chemistry Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^ "Journal of Theoretical Biology Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^ "Wentian Li, PhD". Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
- ^ 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 – via IEEE Xplore.
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