Li Zhaoping

Li Zhaoping
李兆平
Born1964 (age 6061)
EducationFudan University (BS)
California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forV1 Saliency Hypothesis(V1SH).
SpousePeter Dayan
Scientific career
FieldsComputational and Experimental Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
InstitutionsFermi 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
ThesisA model of the olfactory bulb and beyond (1989)
Doctoral advisorJohn J. Hopfield
Websitelizhaoping.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.