About Shuaifeng Li  (Google Scholar, ORCID)

Currently, I am a Research Fellow in Department of Physics at University of Michigan working with Prof. Xiaoming Mao, focusing on mechanical neural networks and physical learning. I earned my Ph.D. from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Washington, under the supervision of Prof. Jinkyu Yang. Before that, I earned my B.S. from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Education

Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics                                                    09/2018-06/2023

University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA, USA

(Dissertation title: Characterization and Modeling of Spatiotemporal Behaviors in Corals, Elastic Metamaterials and Origami)

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering                                              09/2013-06/2017

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei, China

(Dissertation title: Topological phase transition in soft materials)

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Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (07/2023-present) 

Department of Physics, UMich, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Mechanical neural networks

Research Assistant (09/2018-06/2023)                                                              

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, UW, Seattle, WA, USA

Data-driven Modeling

Coral Biophysics

Topological Metamaterials

Undergraduate Research Assistant (03/2015-08/2018)

Department of Optical and Electronic Information, HUST, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Topological Metamaterials

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