Jian Li is a Chinese-American electrical engineer known for her research in signal processing, spectral density estimation, and MIMO radar, and for her books on engineering[1] She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, where she directs the Spectral Analysis Laboratory.
[2] Li is originally from China, where both of her parents are engineers; she followed them into engineering despite her father's wish for her to become a physician,[1] and graduated in 1985 from Xidian University.
[3] She came to Ohio State University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree there in 1987, and completed her Ph.D. in 1991.
[1] Li's books include:[1] Li was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005, "for contributions to adaptive beam forming, radar imaging, and target detection".
[4] She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.