Wen-Ch'ing (Winnie) Li (Chinese: 李文卿; born December 25, 1948) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
Li did her undergraduate studies at National Taiwan University, graduating in 1970;[1][2] at NTU, she was a classmate of other notable female mathematicians Fan Chung, Sun-Yung Alice Chang and Jang-Mei Wu.
[3] She earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974, under the supervision of Andrew Ogg.
[1][2][4] Before joining the PSU faculty in 1979, she was a Benjamin Pierce assistant professor at Harvard University for 3.5 years from 1974 to 1977, and a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1978 to 1979.
[1][2] In 2010, Li was the winner of the Chern Prize, given every three years to an outstanding Chinese mathematician.