Li named IEEE Fellow
Jr-Shin Li, professor of electrical & systems engineering, joins prestigious group
Jr-Shin Li, the Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named an IEEE Fellow in the Class of 2025.
The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, a technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of senior members who have contributed to advancing or applying engineering, science and technology that brings value to society. The number of IEEE Fellows elected in a year is no more than one-tenth of 1 percent of the total IEEE voting membership.
Li was selected for his contributions to ensemble control systems theory and applications to quantum and biological systems.
Li’s research focuses on the areas and the intersections of systems, computational, learning, and data sciences. He is particularly interested in studying complex large-scale systems arising from emerging applications in quantum physics, biology, neuroscience, medicine, public health, and complex networks, as well as learning and analytics for the big data generated from these high-dimensional systems. His research program is transdisciplinary, emphasizing fundamentals of systems science and mathematics and offering research opportunities both within the field and in interdisciplinary applications.
Li joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis after earning a doctorate in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 2006. In addition to his appointment in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, he holds a joint appointment in the Computational and Systems Biology and Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology programs in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at WashU Medicine and the Division of Computational & Data Sciences (DCDS). He is associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and editorial member of Nature Scientific Reports. Previously, he served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST). Li received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award in 2010. He is also a founder and a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Quantum Computing, Systems and Control.
