Li Zhijian

In 1951, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou with a bachelor's degree.

He went to study mathematics and physics in the USSR and was awarded a Science Doctorand by the USSR National University of Leningrad (now known as St. Petersburg State University, Russia).

[2] Li later became a professor of Tsinghua University and held the chief-director position of the institute of Microelectronics for a long period.

He was the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Information Science and Technology School, Tsinghua University.

Li was active at many international academic meetings, serving many times as the meeting-president, member of meeting commission in many international conferences including the International Conference on Solid State Device and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT; 93, 95), Solid State Material and Device Meeting (SSDM; 95, 96, 97, 98) and IEEE Regional Conferences.