Welcome to the Li Group

We are a research group at the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering of Purdue University. Our aim is to develop theory, algorithms, models, and software for large-scale optimization and machine learning with applications in energy, chemical, and biological systems.

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We are currently looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and undergraduate students to join the team (more info) !

We are proud to be part of Professor Ignacio Grossmann’s academic family tree!

News

June 2025

Can was invited to give a plenary talk at the 2025 Amazon Consumer Science Summit.

May 2025

Asha and Hao started their internships at Meta and Amazon, respectively. Congrats!

March 2025

Welcome to new visiting students, André Hernán Quisaguano Paredes from Escuela Politécnica Nacional and Haechang Kim from Seoul National University!

February 2025

We received a gift from Oracle to work on OptiChat for explaining optimization models and solutions using large language models. Thanks Oracle for the support!

December 2024

Can is awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award on developing novel neural network architectures inspired by optimization algorithms.

December 2024

Welcome to new PhD students, Shraman Pal, Piyush Sharma, and Hsuan-Han Chiu!

November 2024

Asha received the third place in the CAST Directors' Student Presentation Award Session at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting. Congrats, Asha!

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