Yuying Li

This article is about the Chinese-Canadian computer scientist. For the Chinese anarchist and educator, see Li Shizeng.

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]

Yuying LI
Education	University of Waterloo, Ph.D., Mathematics, 1988
Occupation	Professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School at University of Waterloo

Education and career

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]

Recognition

Li was the 1993 winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.^[6]