Members of the Group
Dr. Li joined the Department Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program at University of California, Riverside in July 2016.
Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Li worked as a research scientist for EFree (Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environment Center), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) centered at Geophysical Laboratory of Carnegie Institute of Washington and a joint faculty at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Li obtained B.Sc. in Physics from Department of Physics, Peking University and Ph.D in Materials Science from Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology. After graduation, he worked as a postdoc for Scattering and Thermophysics Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
PhD Students

Postdoc/Research Staff
Visiting Scholars
Alumni/Former Group Members
Dr. Yuemei Zhang
PhD in Chemistry, North Carolina State University
Currently a faculty at Warren Wilson College
Dr. Bin Wei
PhD in Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Technology
Currently a faculty at Henan Polytechnic University, PRC
Dr. Qingan Cai
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2022
B.Sc. Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Currently a Product Engineer at
Dr. Shuonan Chen
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2022
B.Sc. Harbin Institute of Technology
Currently a senior NPI Engineer at Lumentum Operations LLC
Weiyi Zhang
Master of Enigineering, Mechanical Engineering