Fu Li (S'86-M'90-SM'92) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Rhode Island, Kingston, in 1990.
He is a Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Oregon. From 1989 to 1990, he was with Prime Computer, Inc., Bedford, MA, as a member of technical staff. Since 1990, he has been with the Portland State University, Portland, OR, where he is currently an Associate Professor of electrical engineering. He worked at Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY, on a research internship in the summer of 1987. His research interests include communications, signal/image processing, and computer vision. He has published over fifty papers in refereed journals, international conferences, and technical reports.
Dr. Li currently serves as a member of the Technical Committee on Statistical Signals and Array Processing of IEEE Signal Processing Society and chairs its Subcommittee on Spectrum Estimation and Time/Frequency Analysis. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. He organized and chairs the Oregon Chapter of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. He received a Pew Teaching Leadership Award at the Second National Conference on Training and Employment of Teaching Assistants in 1989, and he is also a recipient of several IEEE awards.