Bio
Professor Wen-Ching Winnie Li joined Penn State University in 1979 and has been a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics since 2012. She is a renowned Number Theorist specializing in automorphic forms with applications to coding theory and spectral graph theory. She has supervised 17 Ph.D. graduates and served the Mathematical Society internationally. She was the Director of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan 2009-2014. She was a Sloan Fellow in 1981, was awarded the 2010 Chern Prize in Mathematics, and is an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.