Spring 2026: Zachary Monem, Ouidad Abourazzouk, David Polacek, Noah Elledge, Matthew Trinh-Pham, Daniel Cordero, Like Li, Ram Kumar Pal, Mahbubur Rahman, Brandon Castellano, Mihir Patel, Matias Compos Tejera
Spring 2023: Like Li, Ashreet Mishra, Jian Zhao, Mahbubur Rahman, David Korba, Nathan Chandler, Daniel Nicholson, Matt Carter, Ouidad Abourazzouk, Gabriela Gomez Reyes
Fall 2022: Ashreet Mishra, Matt Carter, David Korba, Like Li, Marwa El Amrani, Jian Zhao, Ouidad Abourazzouk
Fall 2021: Like Li, David Korba, Wei Huang, Ashreet Mishra, Nanqiao Wang, Nirmal Bhatt
Dr. Like Li
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Central Florida
Office: Eng-1 407D
Contact: like.li@ucf.edu, (407) 823-2416
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, 2013
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 2010
B.S., Central South University, China, 2007
Employment
12/2023 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida (UCF)
08/2023 – 12/2023, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSSU)
08/2017 – 08/2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSSU
2016 – 2017, Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
2015 – 2016, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
2013 – 2015, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
Ram Kumar Pal (PhD from IIT Delhi, India) (2024 - present)
Jian Zhao (PhD from University of Waterloo) (2022 - 2023, now Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University)
Wei Huang (PhD from Arizona State University) (2020 - 2021)
PhD Students
Mahbubur Rahman (2023 - present)
Ouidad Abourazzouk (2023 - present)
MS Students
Zachary Monem (2025 - present)
Mihir Patel (2025 - present)
Matthew Trinh-Pham (2025 - present)
Brandon Castellano (2025 - present)
Undergraduate Students
David Polacek (2025 - present)
Matias Campos Tejera (2025 - present)
Daniel Cordero (2025 - present)
Noah Elledge (2025 - present)
Former Students
Jeevith Kanagarajan (2024 - 2025, graduated with MS)
William Pavon (2025, worked as MS researcher in our group)
Van Nguyen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)
Leonardo Ballen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)
At MS State
Ashreet Mishra (2020 - 2024, graduated with PhD)
David Korba (2021 - 2023, NSF GRFP Awardee, graduated with PhD)
Oliver (Nanqiao) Wang (2018 - 2022, graduated with PhD)
Matt Carter (2022 - 2023, graduated with MS)
Shuqi Zhou (2019 - 2021, graduated with MS)
Mitchell Copper (2019 - 2022, graduated with MS)
Marwa El Amrani (2022 -2023, graduated with MS)
Ouidad Abourazzouk (2022 - 2023, graduated with MS)
Gabriela Gomez Reyes
Daniel Nicholson
Nathan Chandler
Nirmal Bhatt
Greg Gallagher
Zach Volan
Eric Million
Liam Nelson
Mangesh Joshi
Seshendra Palakurthy
Eddie (Zhenxiao) Song
Wenpei He