Wentian Li | |
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Alma mater | Columbia University |
Known for | Bioinformatics, editor of Computational Biology and Chemistry |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health |
Thesis | Problems in complex systems (1989) |
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.
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.
Wentian Li | |
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Alma mater | Columbia University |
Known for | Bioinformatics, editor of Computational Biology and Chemistry |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health |
Thesis | Problems in complex systems (1989) |
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.
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.