Li, of Hunan ancestry, was born in June 1945 in Sha County in the Fujian Province of China. At age three, he followed his parents to Taiwan, where he received traditional Chinese education. He earned his B.S. in Mathematics at the National Tsinghua University in 1968, as a member of the first graduating Mathematics class of the university since it reopened in Taiwan. After fulfilling the mandatory military service for one year, he came to the United States to pursue his love of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. He received his doctorate in 1974 under the guidance of Dr. James Yorke.

Li joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University in 1976 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1983. He received the honorary title of University Distinguished Professor in 1998. He retired as a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2018 after spending 42 years at the University.

B.S. in Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, June 1968

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Maryland, August 1974

1974 - 1976 Instructor University of Utah

1976 - 1978 Assistant Professor Michigan State University

1978 - 1979 Visiting Associate Professor Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin

1979 - 1983 Associate Professor Michigan State University

1983 - 2018 Professor Michigan State University

1987 - 1988 Invited Guest Professor Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

1993 (Fall) Visiting Professor Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain

1998 (Fall) Visiting Professor Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California

2000 (Fall) Visiting Professor City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

2009 (Fall) Visiting Professor Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada

1998 -2018 University Distinguished Professor Michigan State University

2018 - University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michigan State University

Guggenheim Fellow 1995 - 1996

Distinguished Faculty Award 1995, Michigan State University

J. S. Frame Award for Excellence in Teaching 1996, Michigan State University

University Distinguished Professor 1998 - , Michigan State University

Distinguished Alumni Award 2002, College of Natural Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Outstanding Academic Advisor 2006, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University

Honorary Chair Professor 2006 - 2008, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Outstanding Alumni Award 2012, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Honorary Guest Professor, Tsing Hua University (Beijing), Jilin University (China)

• 11/26/84, Operations Research Society of America Meeting, Dallas, Texas

• 11/26/84, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

• 11/28/84, Rice University, Houston, Texas

• 4/26/85, University of Alabama, University, Alabama

• 4/30/85, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina

• 6/6/85, AIT-CNNAA Joint Differential Equation Seminar, Taiwan

• 6/11/85 Invited touring lectures at 12 institutions in the People’s -7/22/85, Republic of China

• 2/6/86, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• 2/7/86, Fermi Lab., Chicago, Illinois

• 2/25/86, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

• 2/28/86, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

• 3/6/86, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 4/7/86, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

• 4/14/86, Operations Research Society of America Meeting, Los Angeles, California

• 4/15/86, University of California, San Diego, California

• 8/12/86, ISFE 24 (International Symposium on Functional Equations 24), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

• 10/1/86, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• 10/8/86, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

• 10/11/86, AMS 828th meeting, Logan, Utah

• 11/1/86, AMS 830th meeting, Denton, Texas

• 2/5/87, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

• 7/12/87 Invited by the State Commission of Education of China 2 -8/16/87, to give a series of lectures in the 4th Program of the Summer School for the Postgraduate of Mathematics, Jilin University, China

• 10/3/87, Japan Mathematical Society 1987 Annual meeting Kyoto, Japan

• 1/1/88 Invited by a number of universities in Japan to give -6/30/88, colloquium talks. The list of the universities includes University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, University of Tsakuba, Kyushu University, Osaka University, Nagoya University, Kobe University, Ehie University, and Mie University

• 8/30/88, The 13th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Tokyo, Japan

• 11/17/88, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan

• 12/14/88, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 12/19/88, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University, New York, New York

• 1/17/89, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

• 1/29/90, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

• 1/30/90, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

• 2/1/90, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

• 2/8/90, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 4/2/90, Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado

• 5/8/90, Operations Research Society of America National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 5/17/90, Interface 90’s, Kellogg Center, E. Lansing, Michigan

• 5/23/90, Nonlinear Science: The Next Decade, Los Alamos, New Mexico

• 6/17/90 Third Czechoslovak Summer School on Dynamical Systems, -6/23/90, Star´a Tur´a, Czechoslovakia

• 1/9/91, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

• 5/22/91 Invited by Nankai Institute of Mathematics, -6/11/91, Tianjin, China to give a series of lectures for the Program in Dynamical System, along with colloquium talks at several institutions. The list of the institutions includes Peking University, Tsing Hua University, Fuzhou University and the Institute of Systems Sciences, Academia Sinica

• 10/11/91, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

• 2/13/92, IMA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• 7/16/92 International Workshop on Mathematics -7/18/92, Mechanization, Beijing, China 3

• 8/19/92 World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Melbourne, -8/26/92, Florida

• 12/3/92, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

• 7/5/93 International Workshop on Liner & Nonlinear -7/9/93, Iterative Method, Matsuyama, Japan

• 10/4/93 International Workshop on Continuous Algorithms -10/6/93, and Complexity, Barcelona, Spain

• 5/11/94, Instituto De Matematica Pura E Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 6/12/94 AMS 1994 Summer Research Conference, Mount Holyoke -6/16/94, College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

• 11/9/94, IBM Watson Research Center, York Town Heights, New York

• 3/7/95, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattisburg, Mississippi

• 3/10/95 West Florida University, Pensacola, Florida

• 3/29/95, The 26th Annual Iranian Mathematics Conference, Kerman, IRAN

• 8/1/95, The 25th AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, Park City, Utah

• 11/6/95, Seminar on Real Computation and Complexity, Schloβ Dagstuhl, Germany

• 11/14/95, International Workshop on System of Algebraic Equations, CIRM Marseilles, France

• 5/7/96, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

• 6/17/96, ’96 Beijing Dynamical Systems Conference, Beijing, China

• 6/19/96, Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China

• 6/26/96, Peking University, Beijing, China

• 7/26/96, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1/11/97, Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 3/7/97, Stanford University, Stanford, California

• 3/10/97, Caltech, Pasadena, California

• 3/11/97, UCLA, Los Angels, California

• 4/10/97, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 4/11/97, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

• 7/16/97, Institute of System Sciences, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

• 8/12/97, Peking University, Beijing, China

• 12/12/97, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

• 4/4/98, AMS 933rd Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• 8/17/98 Delivered 4 talks in Introductory Workshop on Foundation of -8/26/98, Computational Mathematics and Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis, MSRI, Berkeley, California

• 9/15/98, Workshop on Solving Systems of Equations, MSRI, Berkeley, California

• 3/31/99, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 4

• 8/2/99, Foundation of Computational Mathematics Conference, Oxford, England

• 1/10/00 Distinguished Lecture Series(3 talks), National Tsing-Hua University, -1/12/00, Taiwan

• 2/14/00 Lecture series (4 hrs talks), Caltech, Pasadena, California -2/18/00

• 7/5/00, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

• 7/17/00, International Conference on Foundation of Computational Mathematics in honor of Professor Steve Smale’s 70th Birthday, Hong Kong

• 10/9/00, International Workshop on Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics, Asuka, Japan

• 10/27/00, Sino-Japan Joint Optimization Meeting, Hong Kong

• 1/4/01, Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1/8/01, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

• 4/28/01, Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China

• 10/26/01, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• 12/21/01, ICCM 2001, Taipei, Taiwan

• 4/30/02, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

• 5/1/02, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

• 5/20/02, CBMS “Solving Polynomial System”, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

• 8/14/02, Foundation of Computational Mathematics Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• 4/24/03, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

• 5/13/03, Center for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway

• 8/18/03, “Shub Fest” (in honor of Professor Mike Shub’s 60th birthday), University of California, Berkeley

• 10/15/03, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois

• 11/18/03, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

• 10/23/04, AMS meeting #1001, Evanston, Illinois

• 3/4/05, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri

• 3/9/05, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattisburg, Mississippi

• 3/10/05, University of Southern Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

• 3/11/05, West Florida University, Pensacola, Florida

• 4/7/05, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• 8/9/05, Workshop on Geometry and Symmetry in Numerical Computation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

• 10/10/05, Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference (MAGIC 05), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

• 12/5/05 Lecture Series(8 talks), National Center for Theoretical Sciences, -12/26/05, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

• 12/22/05 National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 4/3/06, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia

• 4/8/06, AMS meeting #1016, Notre Dame, Indiana 5

• 6/5/06, The International Conference on Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamics, Chengdu, China

• 6/12/06, East China Normal Uniersity, Shanhai, China

• 9/21/06, Algorithms in Algebraic Geometry Workshop, IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneaplolis, Minnesota

• 2/16/07, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

• 4/20/07, Workshop on Advances in Optimization, Tokyo, Japan

• 7/31/07, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China

• 8/6/07 Lecture Series (8 talks), Dalian University of Technology, -8/22/07, Dalian, China

• 8/29/07, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• 8/30/07, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• 10/6/07, AMS meeting #1030, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

• 11/7/07, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 5/23/08, Interactions of Classical & Numerical Algebraic Geometry, Notre Dame, Indiana

• 8/26/08, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• 8/29/08, The 4th Sino-Japanese Joint Optimization Meeting, Tainan, Taiwan

• 3/13/09, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

• 5/12/09, Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematics, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• 9/29/09, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 10/9/09, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• 3/1/10, Workshop on Randomization, Relaxation, and Complexity ; Banff International Research Station, Alberta, Canada

• 3/9/10, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• 6/3/10, Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applied and Computational Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

• 6/10/10, Northeast University, Shenyang, China

• 6/12/10, The 7th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications, Darlian University of Technology, Darlian, China

• 6/23/10, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• 6/28/10, The 2rd CREST-SBM International Conference “Harmony of Gr¨obner Bases and Modern Industrial Society”, Osaka, Japan

• 7/6/10, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

• 8/3/10, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 11/6/10, AMS meeting #1064, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana

• 11/20/10, MAA Florida Chapter local meeting, Pensacola, Florida

• 5/26/11, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 6/1/11 Lecture Series (12 talks), Baptist University, -6/15/11, Hong Kong, China

• 10/25/11, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 6

• 11/16/11, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 11/18/11, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

• 4/30/12 , (3 talks) National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, - 5/2/12, Taiwan

• 6/29/12, 5th Shanghai International Symosium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, Fudan University, China

• 7/5/12, Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China

• 7/9,10/12, (3 talks) Darlian University of Technology, Darlian, China

• 8/2/12, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• 6/21/13, 2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics, Hangzhou, China.

• 6/24/13, Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• 6/28/13, Institute of Computation, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• 7/11/13, Beihang University, Beijing, China

• 8/1/13, Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• 1/10/14, 7th “Andrzej Lasota” Lecture, Silesian University of Katouwice, Poland

• 10/30/14, Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• 11/1/14, The 6th Conference of Computer Math (CM2014), Chongqing, China

• 11/3/14, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

• 11/6/14, Darlian University of Technology, Darlian, China

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