Background and Education
Professor Xue-Mei Li, currently affiliated with EPFL and Imperial College London, specializes in stochastic geometric analysis and probability. Her academic pursuits began at the University of Warwick, supported by the Sino-British Friendship Scholarship. She completed her PhD in 1993 and subsequently worked as an EPSRC Research Associate until 1995.
Professional Journey
In the United States, Professor Li’s career took a leap at the University of Connecticut, where she progressed from a tenure-track assistant professor to a tenured associate professor by 2001. Her early research was notably recognized with an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1996. The following year, she enhanced her research capabilities with a MSRI Reearch fellowship at the MSRI in Berkeley. In 2001, she returned to the UK, where she has since held several academic positions.
Research Excellence and Recognition
Professor Li’s pioneering work has led to major advancements in stochastic flows, geometric stochastic analysis, Malliavin-Sobolev Calculus, and multi-scale analysis on manifolds. Recently, her focus has broadened to include fluctuation theory of SPDEs, stochastic wave equations, stochastic models with long range dependent noise, and rough path theory. Her innovative contributions, at the intersection of stochastic processes and geometric frameworks, have consistently received support from prestigious institutions like the US National Science Foundation, the Leverhulme Foundation, and the Royal Society. Additionally, significant funding from the EPSRC, UKRI, and the Swiss Science Foundation highlights her dedication to advancing the field of mathematical sciences.