Hui LǏ, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Associate in Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA 

Dr. Li was born in Fengxian County, Shanghai in May, 1978. In 1996 he graduated from High School affiliated to Fudan University with the third highest score in the University entrance exam of Shanghai and was admitted by Dept. Genetics, Fudan University. Then he worked in Prof. Li JIN's lab in Ins. of Genetics, Fudan Univ. after graduation. In 2002, he helped Prof. Jin to establish the Center for Anthropological Studies. He became China's First PhD of Human Biology in 2005. After he got his PhD, he went to Yale University as a Postdoctoral Associate in Dept. Genetics. Dr. Li began with the field investigations and lab researches on human biology in 1998. He has been to a large number of places in China and Southeast Asia, worked hard in the jungles and the mountains, collected a lot of human biological samples from all kinds of ethnic groups. He published tens of papers on the phylogenetic histories of the orient ethnic groups. In his PhD thesis, Genetic Structure of Austro-Tai Populations,  he tried to construct the natural philosophy of molecular anthropology, summarized the methods and ideas, and analyzed strictly the genetic structure of Tai-Kadai and Austronesian populations step by step with detailed data. The history of Bai-Yue(Hecto-Daic), a famous ethinic group of ancient China, was then reconstructed, just as a landmark in the development of molecular anthropology in China.