Recently, Beihang professor Li Hongyi from the School of Mathematical Sciences was honored with the honorary title of Capital Labor Medal by Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.

As a professor and PhD supervisor, Li Hongyi has been working diligently on the front line and devoted to the development of education during her 38-year teaching career. She is actively engaged in education reform and keeps updating her teaching philosophy. Her innovative teaching model is popular among the students and she was elected as the "five-star teacher". She won the Beihang Distinction Award for Moral Achievement and Talent Cultivation in 2019.

Professor Li was assiduous in developing the international massive open online courses, Linear Algebra, in response to the call of the Ministry of Education to fight against COVID-19. The course ranked first in the number of subscribers among 11 courses of mathematics and more than 300 courses on the international platform and got a full five-star praise, contributing to the information development of education in Beijing. Donating books to the undergraduates, giving voluntary lectures and helping the impoverished students, she always put students’ interests first and care about them without pursuing fame or self-interests.

Volunteered to provide science and technology classes for undergraduates for more than 10 years, Li has helped many students to continue their studies at leading universities at home and abroad after graduation. She is a role model in moral achievement and talent cultivation and has been granted many honorary titles. As a pioneer in the studies of mathematical representation theory of electromagnetic interference signal, she has published more than 80 research papers, 3 national planning textbooks and has presided over 10 projects.

Reported by Zhang Fang

Reviewed by Cheng Wenhao

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Li Zhuoyang