Li Jianshu (; born 1959), also known as Jian-Shu Li, is a Chinese

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working in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the na ...

and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Early life and education

Li was born in Xiaoshan,

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...

, China. He graduated from Xiaoshan Middle School. Li studied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at

. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

under the supervision of Roger Evans Howe in 1987.

Career

Li was a Moore Instructor at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and a professor at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

. Li is Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and has previously served as President of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society and as Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. Li is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at

Awards and honors

Li was a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1992 and an invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

(ICM) in 1994 (Section: Lie Groups). He has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 2013.

Selected works

* * * * "On the classification of irreducible low rank unitary representations of classical groups", ''Compositio Math.'' 71 (1989), no. 1, 29–48. *

References

External links

Hong Kong Mathematical Society

LI Jian-Shu's homepage at Zhejiang University

LI Jian-Shu's homepage at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

{{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Jianshu 1959 births Living people 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians Academic staff of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Academic staff of Zhejiang University Chinese expatriates in the United States Educators from Hangzhou Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Mathematicians from Zhejiang Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientists from Hangzhou University of Maryland, College Park faculty Yale University alumni Zhejiang University alumni