Wenbo V. Li
Professor of Mathematics


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Research Interests. Stochastic modelling and analysis in sciences (mathematics, statistics, computation, biology, finance, engineering, networks); Gaussian processes and applications of Gaussian methods; Gaussian Random and Free Fields; Small deviation/value probabilities; Probability estimates for exit/survival/crossing time; Boundary crossing probabilities with applications to sequential analysis; Stochastic and combinatorial optimization/algorithm; Random polynomials and matrices; Stochastic inequalities; Simulation; Probabilistic methods; Probability on Banach spaces and geometric functional analysis; Stochastic partial differential equations and random dynamics.
  • Publications;

  • Small Value Probabilities;

  • Selected Professional and Educational Experience

    Honors and Awards

    Selected National/International Professional Services

    Selected Meetings Organized

    Current/Selected Supports

    Upcoming/Recent Conferences; Past Conferences --2011

  • XVII Brazilian School of Probability (XVII EBP), Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, August 4-10, 2013.
  • 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, July 29 - August 2, 2013, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), Budapest, Hungary, July 20-25, 2013
  • IMS-China, summer of 2013.
  • Advances in High Dimensional Probability, Denmark, May 27-31, 2013.
  • The Eleventh Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS) , Columbia University, Nov. 2012.
  • Thirty Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL , Oct. 2012
  • Sino-German probability workshop, Xuzhou, China, Oct. 2012.
  • Workshop for Women in Probability, Duke, Oct. 14-16, 2012.
  • AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting, Rochester Institute of Technology, Sep. 22-23, 2012.
  • Meeting the Challenges of High Dimension: Statistical Methodology, Theory and Applications, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, 06/13 - 10/26/2012.
  • Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, 06/18 - 08/15/2012,
  • Probability workshop, Dalian, China, 08/4-7/2012.
  • The Eighth Workshop on Markov Processes and Related Topics, Beijing Normal University, July 16-20, 2012.
  • The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012.
  • Fields Institute-MITACS International Symposium on Asymptotic Methods in Stochastics, Ottawa, July 2–5, 2012
  • The Second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan, July 1–4, 2012
  • 6th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts (WCNA 2012), University of Athens, Greece, June 25 – July 1, 2012.
  • St. Petersburg School in Probability and Statistical Physics, St. Petersburg, June 18-29, 2012
  • New Directions Short Course: Advances in Random Matrix Theory, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), June 18-29, 2012.
  • Probability and Analysis, Conference Center of Polish Academy of Sciences in Bedlewo, Poland, June 10-16, 2012.
  • Ten lectures on Small Deviation Probabilities: Theory and Applications, NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, June 04-08, 2012.
  • The second “Southeastern Probability Conference, Duke, May 14-15, 2012.
  • User-Centered Modeling, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), May 7-11, 2012.
  • Spring School in Probability, IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 23-27, 2012.
  • Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Banff international research station, April 1-6, 2012.
  • Machine Learning: Theory and Computation, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), March 26-30, 2012.
  • Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2012, University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 22-24, 2012.
  • Arizona School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Tucson, Arizona, March 12-16, 2012.
  • Network Links: Connecting Social, Communication and Biological Network Analysis, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Feb. 27-March 2, 2012.
  • Group Testing Designs, Algorithms, and Applications to Biology, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Feb. 13-17, 2012.

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