Professor Li is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include Lie Group Representations and Automorphic Forms, which pertain to symmetry and number theory. Representation theory is an important branch of mathematics which describes abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces. Group Theory is a precise concept to describe symmetry in mathematics. Harmonic Analysis on Lie Group is widely applied in Mathematics and Physics.

(Source: https://hkust.edu.hk/news/recognition/hkust-mathematics-professor-elected-chinese-academy-sciences?cn=1)

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