William Li

William Li

Professor Emeritus

Supply Chain and Operations

Education

BS
Applied Mathematics Tsinghau University

MMath
Statistics University of Waterloo

PhD
Statistics University of Waterloo

Expertise

Robust design and quality engineering

Optimal design

Choice experiments

Computer design

Data mining

William Li received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the Tsinghua University in China, and both his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He had worked at Ford Motor Company prior to joining the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He has taught international executive MBA courses in different programs in Austria, China, and Poland and won several teaching awards in 2006, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016. He is an invited professor at Fudan University and has taught EMBA courses for several programs in China. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). His research articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of American Statistics Association, Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and Neural Computation. Among his publications is a textbook "Applied Linear Statistical Models" (with Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Neter), 5th Edition, Irwin.

Selected Works

"Applied Linear Statistical Models," (5th edition), by Kutner, Nachtsheim, Neter, and Li, McGrawHill Irwin, 2005

Li, W., Nachtsheim, C.J., Wang, K., Reul, R., and Albrecht, M. (2013), "Conjoint Analysis and Discrete Choice Experiments for Quality Improvement," Journal of Quality Technology 45(1), 74–99.

Choi, N.H., Li, W., and Zhu, J. (2010), "Variable Selection with the Strong Heredity Constraint and Its Oracle Property," Journal of American Statistical Association, 105, 354–364.

Jones, B., Li, W., and Nachtsheim, C. J., and Ye, K. (2009), "ModelRobust Supersaturated and Partially Supersaturated Designs," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 45–53

Lu, X., Li, W., and Xie, M. (2006), "A Class of Nearly Orthogonal arrays," Journal of Quality Technology, 38(2), 148–161.

Li, W., Lin, D. K. J., and Ye, K. (2003), "Optimal Foldover Plans for NonRegular Designs," Technometrics, 45(3), 347–351.

Li, W., and Lin, D. K. J. (2003), "Optimal Foldover Plans for TwoLevel Factorial Designs," Technometrics, 45(2), 142–149.

Li, W., and Nachtsheim, C. J. (2000), "ModelRobust Factorial Design," Technometrics, 42, 345–352.

Ye, K., Li, W., and Sudjianto, A. (2000), "Algorithmic Construction of Optimal Symmetric Latin Hypercube Designs," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 90, 145–159.

Shao, X., Cherkassky, C., and Li, W. (2000), "Measuring the VCDimension Using Optimized Experimental Design," Neural Computation, 12, 1969–1986.

Li, W., and Wu, C. F. J. (1997), "ColumnwisePairwise Algorithms with Applications to the Construction of Supersaturated Designs," Technometrics, 37, 171–179, 1997.

Current Activities

Current Research

Current Research

Optimal design of industrial experiments, robust designs, efficient computer experiments, data mining, and conjoint analysis and design of discrete choice experiments

Scholarly Service

Scholarly and Professional Service

Associate Editor for Technometrics (from 2010), Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, and the Journal of Statistics Education