University Professor, University of Waterloo

Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada

Science Committee Member

Ming LI

Ming Li is a Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and a University 

Professor at the University of Waterloo. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE. He is a recipient of Canada's E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship Award in 1996, the 2001 Killam Fellowship and the 2010's Killam Prize. Together with Paul Vitanyi they have pioneered the applications of Kolmogorov complexity and co-authored the book "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications". His recent research interests recently include bioinformatics, natural language processing, deep learning,and information distance.

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