Author Biography
John K-J. Li received his Ph.D. in bioengineering in 1978 from the
University
of
Pennsylvania. He was Head of Biomedical Engineering at
Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center from 1977-
1979 prior to joining Rutgers University where he is currently a
Professor
I1
(distinguished) of Biomedical Engineering. He has been a
Director of Joint Graduate Program
of
Rutgers and UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School and has supervised more than
60
Ph.D.
and M.S. theses projects. Dr. Li is
a
Fellow of the American Institute for
Medical
and Biological
Engineering, the American
College
of
Cardiology and the American College
of
Angiology. He is a recipient of
IEEE Millennium Medal award and of research grants from the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, DOD and the
American Heart Association on cardiovascular
function,
computer
modeling, controlled drug delivery (with U.S. patents) and biomedical
sensors. He has served as a member of NIH special study sections, a
reviewer for NSF and the International Science Foundation. He is
Editor-in-chief of
Cardiovascular Engineering: an International Journal
and has been an Associate Editor
of
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering
and a number
of
other biomedical engineering journals. Dr.
Li
is
a
frequently invited speaker and scientific session chair on
cardiovascular dynamics, biomedical instrumentation and their clinical
applications. He has more than
350
publications and
Dynamics
of
the
Vascular System
is his fifth book. Dr. Li
is
the Editor of World Scientific
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
Book Series.
