This story originally appeared on Rutgers Today
The Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed SAS professors Jing Li and Dimitri Metaxas as Board of Governors Professors during its June 2024 meeting. The designation celebrates the most decorated academic scholars at the university.
Jing Li
Jing LiA faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences for more than 20 years with an unparalleled reputation as a collaborator and mentor, Li is internationally recognized for her transformative and original contributions to the field—including research in inorganic and solid-state chemistry, hybrid semiconductors, nanostructured materials and metal-organic frameworks.
Elevated to Distinguished Professor in 2006, Li has an extensive list of scholarly publications and an exceptional funding record of nearly $20 million from federal agencies. She has 460 peer-reviewed publications, including 41 invited review articles and book chapters, and has been issued 12 United States patents.
Recipient of the 2023 Chancellor-Provost Award for Pioneering Scholarship, Li has earned the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Award, in addition to her election as fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Recognized as a highly cited researcher numerous times, she gives lectures, keynote addresses and plenary speeches at prestigious universities, institutes, and national and international conferences.
Li received her doctoral degree in inorganic and solid-state chemistry and master of science degree in inorganic chemistry both from Cornell University, where she also worked as a postdoctoral research associate.
Dimitris Metaxas
Dimitris MetaxasA Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science since 2007, Metaxas is Director of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics at Rutgers and founded the university’s Center for Computational Biomedicine, Imaging and Modeling in 2002—which has garnered over $80 million of research funding—for over 20 years.
Metaxas has authored or co-authored more than 700 publications. His research has received numerous awards, and he has mentored an enormous number of postdoctoral researchers—including over 67 Ph.D. students—during his tenure. He was chair of the department from 2013-17.
Elected Fellow to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Metaxas has provided leadership to several editorial boards and earned and invitation from the White House to participate on the “Data Science 2030” committee.
Metaxas received his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Toronto, Canada, his master of science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his diploma in electrical engineering and computer science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He served for over 10 years as professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania before his arrival in New Brunswick.
