Li Zhaoping
| Li Zhaoping | |
|---|---|
| 李兆平 | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) | 
| Education | Fudan University (BS) California Institute of Technology (PhD) | 
| Known for | V1 Saliency Hypothesis(V1SH). | 
| Spouse | Peter Dayan | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational and Experimental Neuroscience Experimental Psychology | 
| Institutions | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Institute for Advanced Study Rockefeller University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University College London University of Tuebingen Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics | 
| Thesis | A model of the olfactory bulb and beyond (1989) | 
| Doctoral advisor | John J. Hopfield | 
| Website | lizhaoping.org | 
Li Zhaoping (Chinese: 李兆平) is a Chinese neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She is the only woman to win the first place in CUSPEA, a 1980s annual national physics admission examination in China, during CUSPEA's 10-year history (1979–1989). She proposed V1 Saliency Hypothesis (V1SH), and is the author of Understanding vision: theory, models, and data published by Oxford University Press.