Jun Li

Professor

Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Data Mining, Statistical Machine Learning

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012
M.S., Tsinghua University, 2007
B.E., Tsinghua University, 2004

Dr. Li received his bachelor's degree in Automation and master's degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, both from Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. In 2012, he received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Robert Tibshirani. Dr. Li joined Notre Dame as a tenure-track Assistant Professor after graduation, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2017, and to Full Professor in 2020. Dr. Li is a statistician, and his main research interest is in developing statistical and computational methods and algorithms on big datasets that challenge traditional statistical methods and computational power.