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Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Email: lzli@seas.upenn.edu

Selected Honors & Awards

2024 TMS FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award
2023 JMBBM Early Career Research Award
2023 Young Innovator Award in Nano Research (Bio-inspired nanomaterials)
2023 HFSP Research Grant Award
2023 Best Science Image, Nature
2022 Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering
2022 Mary V. Jones Faculty Fellow
2020 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2020 ICTAS Junior Faculty Award
2020 NSF CAREER Award
2019 MIT TR35 China Award
2019 Outstanding Assistant Professor Award, Virginia Tech
2018 AFOSR YIP Award
2017 Assistant Professor Mentoring Grant Award, Virginia Tech

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Ph.D students and postdocs

 

Shahbaz Mahmood Khan

B.S.: UET, Lahore, Pakistan

M.S.: GIK Institute, Pakistan

Email: shahbaz@vt.edu

 

 

 

 

Liuni Chen

B.S.: Virginia tech, 2019

Email: Liunic@seas.upenn.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Yang Geng

B.S.: Chongqing University, China, 2018

M.S.: Chongqing University, China, 2021

Email: Yanggeng@seas.upenn.edu

 

 

 

 

Chenhao Hu

B.S.: Virginia tech, 2020

Email: chenhaoh@seas.upenn.edu

 

 

 

 

Masters/undergraduate students

 

 

Alumni

• Hongshun Chen, Ph.D.  2017-2023 (Now postdoc at Northwestern University)
• Zhifei Deng, Ph.D. 2017-2023 (Now postdoc at Johns Hopkins University)
• Dr. Zi'an Jia, Postdoc. 2019-2022 (Now postdoc at Princeton University)
• Ting Yang, Ph.D. 2017-2021 (Now postdoc at MIT)
• Edward Lee, M.S. (2020-2023)
• Nick Roth, M.S. (2020-2023)
• Yiming Tan, M.S. (2019-2022)