University Professor Ming Li has been elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is one of 47 Fellows in Canada, along with six international Fellows, who will be officially inducted into the Academy at a June 17, 2022 ceremony in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
University Professor Li was elected to the Academy for his significant research contributions that span many areas, including —
- Building large-scale bioinformatics systems that have enabled modern proteomics projects worldwide
- Contributing to designing an antibody sequencing pipeline that has helped the protein sequencing industry
- Contributing to improving de novo peptide sequencing accuracy, a key step in developing personalized cancer immunotherapy
- Contributing to modern information theory through his book, “An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications,” a widely read, cited and celebrated text coauthored with Paul Vitányi at Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica that has revolutionized people’s conception of information science and has seen wide applications across engineering and science
University
Professor
Ming
Li
is
known
for
his
fundamental
contributions
to
Kolmogorov
complexity,
bioinformatics,
machine
learning,
and
analysis
of
algorithms.
He
received
the
prestigious
E.W.R.
Steacie
Memorial
Fellowship
in
1996.
He
was
named
a
University
Professor
by
the
University
of
Waterloo
in
2009
and
won
the
Killam
Prize
in
2010
for
his
contributions
in
computer
science.
He
is
the
Canada
Research
Chair
in
Bioinformatics,
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada,
a
Fellow
of
the
Association
for
Computing
Machinery,
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Institute
of
Electrical
and
Electronics
Engineers.
In
2021,
he
received
a
Lifetime
Achievement
Award
in
Computer
Science
from
CS-Can
|
Info-Can.
The Canadian Academy of Engineering was founded in 1987 and comprises more than 800 Fellows who have made outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world. Fellows have demonstrated their dedication to the application of science and engineering to advance social, environmental, economic and technical solutions.