I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology working with Prof. Shiladitya Banerjee. My research integrates theoretical, computational, and biophysical approaches to uncover how mechanical feedback, geometry, and active processes govern epithelial tissue morphogenesis and to establish physical principles for designing self-organizing materials.

Research interests: 

• Bio-inspired metamaterials exhibit directionally isotropic photonic and acoustic bandgaps; 

• Impact of intratumor heterogeneity rigidity and cancer metastasis; 

• Cell sorting dynamics under matrix confinement;

• Dynamics and topological defects in active filaments;

• Cell cycle dynamics and anisotropic tissue growth;

• Mechanism of 3D cell rearrangement and scutoid formation.

Phone: +1 (617) 818-1136

Email: xli3267@gatech.edu

Address: Howey Physics Bldg W509, 837 State St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332