Professor Bo Li’s research interests lie in spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, with a broad interdisciplinary focus that spans climatology, public health, ecology, agriculture, and forestry. Her research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, NASA, and Sandia National Laboratories.
Professor Li's work is primarily rooted in environmental statistics. Her contributions to statistical theory and methodology include univariate and multivariate spatiotemporal data modeling, functional data analysis, multiple testing, copula methods, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, and spatial extremes. The applied aspects of her research are far-reaching, with a particular emphasis on climatology, public health, ecology, agriculture, and forestry.
