Principal Investigator:

Prof. Tian Li
Dr. Tian Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. She carried out her PhD under Prof. Mario Dagenais in the area of microelectronics and non-linear optics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland. She then joined Prof. Liangbing Hu's group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the same University for Postdoc study. Tian was recognized as a Packard Fellow, Violet B. Haas Fellow and is the recipient of many awards including Forbes 30 under 30, ASME Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Award, R&D 100 Finalist, Sony Research Innovation Award, MRS postdoc award, among others. Her research work has been covered in many medias including Science podcast, Nature index, New York Times and others.
Postdoctoral Fellows:

Yun Zhang

Xiaojie Liu
Graduate Students:

Wenkai Zhu

Waqas, Alam
(co-advised with Prof. David Warsinger)

Pengfei Deng

Wenhui Xu

Abdulrahman Aljwirah
(co-advised with Prof. Xiulin Ruan)

Xiwei Shan

Noor Mohammad

Fengyin Du
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Zhenyuan Niu
Undergraduate Students:

Masnyk, Tanya Sophia

Zubair Mumin Wahed
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Gabriella Schalm

Hannah Gjovik

Lukas Karim Hessini

Katherine Liu

Leen Yasser Alshaikh
Alumni
Graduated with Master Thesis Degree and currently pursuing PhD

Sai Swapneel Aranke

Rohan Shitalkumar Patni
Graduated with Master and currently in Industry
