Ming Li

Ming Li is a Professor at the University of Waterloo, holding the Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics. Affiliated with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, his research spans Bioinformatics, Kolmogorov Complexity, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computational Biology. His contact details include office Davis Center 3355 and email mli@uwaterloo.ca.

• Research Interests include Bioinformatics (protein/antibody sequencing, structure analysis), Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications, and Algorithms & Complexity (average-case analysis, information distance).
• Editorial Roles: Co-Managing Editor of the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Associate Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Editorial board member of multiple journals including SIAM Journal on Computing and Information and Computation.
• Professional Activities: Served on scientific advisory committees for Genome Prairie and Tsinghua University, and numerous international conference program committees (e.g., KDD 2007, CPM 2007, FOCS'99).
• Awards & Honors:
  • Killam Prize (2010)
  • IEEE Granular Computing Outstanding Contribution Award (2010)
  • Premier's Discovery Award (2009)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE (2006)
  • Killam Fellowship (2001)
  • E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1996)
  • Multiple Best Paper Awards
• Students & Postdocs: Mentored over 30 graduate students and postdocs, including current advisees Guangyu Feng, Anqi Cui, and alumni like Babak Alipanahi, Xin Chen, and Brona Brejova.