Jr-Shin Li

Jr-Shin Li is the Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the McKelvey School of Engineering's Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering. He holds a joint appointment in the Computational and Systems Biology and Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology programs within the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS). His research focuses on control, dynamical systems, optimization, and learning, with applications in physics, biology, neuroscience, medicine, public health, and complex networks.

Education: PhD (2006) and SM (2004) in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University; MS (1998) and BS (1996) in National Taiwan University.

Research interests include modeling large-scale systems in interdisciplinary domains. Notable awards include the NSF Career Award (2008), AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2010), and IEEE Fellow designation (2024). He serves as an Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Grants and advising: Active in securing NSF and AFOSR funding. His lab explores systems science fundamentals and interdisciplinary applications, with ongoing work on circadian rhythms and sleep disorders modeling.

Labs/Teams: Leads research in systems science and mathematical modeling, collaborating across engineering and biomedical disciplines.