ZhiWu Li received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering, automatic control, and manufacturing engineering, respectively, all from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively.
He joined Xidian University in 1992.
His current research interests include Petri net theory and application, supervisory control of discrete event systems, workflow modeling and analysis, system reconfiguration, game theory, and data and process mining.
He currently chairs of the Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the world, 27th Edition, 2010. Dr. Li is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and Research in Paris, France. He is a Fellow of IEEE.