Jian Li is a Chinese-American electrical engineer known for her research in signal processing, spectral density estimation, and MIMO radar, and for her books on engineering^[1] She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, where she directs the Spectral Analysis Laboratory.^[2]

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,^[1] and graduated in 1985 from Xidian University.^[3] She came to Ohio State University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree there in 1987, and completed her Ph.D. in 1991.^[1]

After completing her doctorate, she took at the position at the University of Kentucky before moving to the University of Florida two years later.^[1]

Books

Li's books include:^[1]

• Radar Signal Processing and Its Applications (edited with R. Hummel, Peter Stoica, 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 in 2005, "for contributions to adaptive beam forming, radar imaging, and target detection".^[4] She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.^[1]