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Wentian Li is a bioinformatician. He is co-editor-in-chief of Computational Biology and Chemistry and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. Li is an investigator at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.

Li received his BS in Physics from Beijing University in 1982 and PhD in Physics and Complex Systems from Columbia University in 1989.

Notable Work

In 1992 Li published a short paper proving that Zipf's Law was not a deep law in natural language, but rather that any randomly generated sequence of symbols would exhibit Zipf's Law if you looked at the distribution of words by rank.

References

1. "Computational Biology and Chemistry Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
2. "Journal of Theoretical Biology Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
3. "Wentian Li, PhD". Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
4. Li, W. (1992). "Random texts exhibit Zipf's-law-like word frequency distribution". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 38 (6): 1842–1845. doi:10.1109/18.165464 – via IEEE Xplore.

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