Bo Li

Email: bol@wustl.edu

Office: Jolley Hall, Room 517

Mailing Address: 
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1281
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Department of Statistics and Data Science

I completed a two-year postdoctoral appointment as a Postgraduate Scientist at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. In 2008, I joined the Department of Statistics at Purdue University. I moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. Most recently, in 2024, I transitioned to Washington University in St. Louis, where I currently hold a Stanley A. Sawyer Professorship in Statistics and Data Science. During my tenure at UIUC, I was a Marjorie Roberts Professor and also had held the Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, Office of Risk Management & Insurance Research (ORMIR) Faculty Scholar, and Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar. Additionally, I chaired the department from 2019 to 2024.

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2006

M.S. in Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2004

M.S. in Ship and Ocean Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

B.S. in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering with a Minor in Foreign Trade, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research Interests

  • Univariate and multivariate spatio-temporal data modeling
  • Bayesian hierarchical modeling
  • Functional data methods
  • Changepoint for spatially indexed data
  • Spatial extremes
  • Machine learning methods
  • Copula

Research Applications

  • Climatology and atmospheric science including climate change, climate model evaluation and paleoclimate reconstruction.
  • Public health such as HIV, vector-born disease, and heat wave related human morbidity.
  • Environmental sciences including water, ecology, agriculture, forestry, etc.