Jian Li is a Chinese-American electrical engineer known for her research in

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

spectral density estimation In statistical signal processing, the goal of spectral density estimation (SDE) or simply spectral estimation is to estimate the spectral density (also known as the power spectral density) of a signal from a sequence of time samples of the signa ...

, and MIMO radar, and for her books on engineering She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

, where she directs the Spectral Analysis Laboratory.

Education and career

Li is originally from China, where both of her parents are engineers; she followed them into engineering despite her father's wish for her to become a physician, and graduated in 1985 from

Xidian University Xidian University () is a public research university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, that is administered by the Ministry of Education of China. Xidian focuses on electronics and information education and research, and has programs covering engineer ...

. She came to

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree there in 1987, and completed her Ph.D. in 1991. After completing her doctorate, she took at the position at the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

before moving to the University of Florida two years later.

Books

Li's books include: *''Radar Signal Processing and Its Applications'' (edited with R. Hummel,

Peter Stoica Peter (Petre) Stoica (born 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, ...

, and E. G. Zelnio, Springer, 2003) *''Spectral Analysis of Signals: The Missing Data Case'' (with Yanwei Wang and Stoica, Morgan & Claypool, 2005) *''Robust Adaptive Beamforming'' (with Stoica, Wiley, 2005, Wiley) *''MIMO Radar Signal Processing'' (edited with Stoica, Wiley, 2009) *''Waveform Design for Active Sensing Systems: A Computational Approach'' (with Hao He and Stoica, Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Recognition

Li was named a

Fellow of the IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

in 2005, "for contributions to adaptive beam forming, radar imaging, and target detection". She is also a Fellow of the

Institution of Engineering and Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...

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