Wentian Li

Wentian Li is a bioinformatician. He is co-editor-in-chief of Computational Biology and Chemistry and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. Li is an investigator at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.
Li received his BS in Physics from Beijing University in 1982 and PhD in Physics and Complex Systems from Columbia University in 1989.

Notable Work

In 1992 Li published a short paper proving that Zipf's law holds for randomly generated sequences of symbols, when the distribution of strings is ordered by rank.