Master Li Ren’s ancestral home is Houkengzi Village, Kelu Town, Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. His father, Li Yuri, was a famous military scientist in China during the Republic of China. Together with Jiang Baili of Zhejiang and Yang Jie of Yunnan, he was a giant of Chinese military science and was well-known at home and abroad.
In 1950, he moved to Taiwan with his parents. He graduated from National Taiwan University in 1961 with a major in mechanical engineering. He received a master's degree and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1963 and 1965 respectively. From 1966 to 1969, he studied as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Feng Yuan-chen of UCSD.
Before 2003, he taught biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia for 34 years and served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering for 13 years. From 1995 to 1996, he was elected president of the American Society of Biomedical Engineering.
Currently, he is the CEO of Global Monitors (GMI) and a part-time professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and Biological Engineering and served as president of the Society for Biomedical Engineering from 1995 to 1996.
For his research on microcirculatory biomechanics and his contribution to the biomedical engineering profession, he twice received the Distinguished Lecture Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society in 1998 and 2002. He has published numerous articles and monographs in the areas of vascular mechanics, mass transport in the circulatory and respiratory systems, microvascular indicator dilution methods, and blood volume control. He has published more than 70 books and received 5 patents.
According to insiders, Li Renshi returned to Leizhou with his mother, Ms. Lai Yaozhi, in 1944 and lived in Leizhou for nearly a year. This is the second time he has returned to Leizhou in 67 years.