Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Dr. Jingang Li
Email: jingang@purdue.edu
2025 – present Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Engineering, Purdue University (Purdue ME Directory; MSE Directory)
2022 – 2025 Postdoc, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
2017 – 2021 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering Program, The University of Texas at Austin
2013 – 2017 B.S., Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Graduate Students
Junyuan Lu
Email: lu1301@purdue.edu
2025 – present Ph.D. Student, Materials Engineering, Purdue University
2021 – 2025 B.Eng., Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Awards:
2025 – 2026 Lynn Fellowship, Purdue University
2025 Best Bachelor Thesis (Top 1%), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Anh Khoa Le (starting in Fall 2026)
Email: le452@purdue.edu
2026 – present Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
2021 – 2025 B.Sci. (magna cum laude), Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Awards:
2026 – 2027 John H. Smith Fellowship, Purdue University
2025 Outstanding Graduation Award, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Undergraduate Students
Caleb Thomas Webb
Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Ruhaan Batta
Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Bottomley Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Austin Yin
Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Xinya Zhou
Materials Engineering
Purdue University