Wentian Li Explained

Wentian Li
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Work Institutions:The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health
Known For:Bioinformatics, editor of Computational Biology and Chemistry
Thesis Title:Problems in complex systems
Thesis Year:1989
Thesis Url:http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/930607

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Computational Biology and Chemistry Editorial Board . . 2013-01-12.
  2. Web site: Journal of Theoretical Biology Editorial Board . . 2013-01-12.
  3. Web site: Wentian Li, PhD . Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research . . 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 . 10.1109/18.165464 . IEEE Xplore.

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