Jing-Rebecca Li is an applied mathematician known for her work on

magnetic resonance imaging Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio wave ...

and

Lyapunov equation In control theory, the discrete Lyapunov equation is of the form :A X A^ - X + Q = 0 where Q is a Hermitian matrix and A^H is the conjugate transpose of A. The continuous Lyapunov equation is of the form :AX + XA^H + Q = 0. The Lyapunov equation o ...

s. She is a researcher with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), at their Saclay research center.

Education and career

Li graduated from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1995 with highest distinction and honors in mathematics, after starting out at Michigan as a

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

student. She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics 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 ...

in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Model reduction of large linear systems via low rank system Gramians'', was supervised by Jacob K. White. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2000 to 2003, and earned a

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Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

in 2013. She has been a research scientist with INRIA since 2003.

Recognition

As an undergraduate, Li won the 1994

Alice T. Schafer Prize The Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize is given annually to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). The prize, which carries a monetary award, is named for former AWM president and fou ...

for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Women, given by the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

. In 2001, Li was one of the second prize winners of the

Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analyst ...

. Li won the Alston S. Householder Prize, a triennial award for the best dissertation in numerical linear algebra, in 2002. A 2002 paper of Li, "Low-rank solution of Lyapunov equations" (with Jacob White) was selected in 2004 by ''SIAM Review'' for their "SIGEST" collection of papers "chosen on the basis of exceptional interest to the entire SIAM community".

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