Dr. Yong-Ming Li

Dr. Yong-Ming Li is a senior technical manager at Intergraph Corporation with over 20 years of professional software development experience. Dr. Li specializes in curve, surface and solid modeling. He has developed numerous geometric modeling algorithms to support SolidEdge, SmartPlant, and SmartMarine. He received his B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from Chengdu University of Science and Technology in China. While studying for his master's degree at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, Yong-Ming Li received the Sino-British Friendship Scholarship and went to England in 1988 to continue his postgraduate study. At the University of Birmingham, he earned an M.Sc. in production engineering and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on geometric modeling and computer-aided design. His personal website is: www.infogoaround.org.

笔者成长在文革动乱时期，有过下乡插队和工厂当学徒工的坎坷经历。1977年恢复高考后，笔者于1978年考进成都科技大学，就读于机械工程系。毕业留校工作四年后，考进西北工业大学。在那里攻读机械硕士学位期间，荣获由世界船王包玉刚爵士发起的“中英友好奖学金”的资助，远渡重洋在英国伯明翰大学取得硕士和博士学位。笔者目前在美国鹰图公司就职，领导和负责计算数学和几何造型软件的研发，著有《A Practical Guide to Developing Computational Software（开发计算软件的实用指南）》。其个人网站是：www.infogoaround.org。