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.
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
January 2026 December 2025Welcome to new PhD studnents, Rafif Sulthan Ramadhan and Saket Vardhan!
December 2025Gonzalo and Hao's paper on constrained deep learning was presented at the 2025 NeurIPS conference. Congrats!
November 2025Our team participated in the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting. Asha won the WIC student travel award. Hao was selected to give a talk in the CAST Division Student Presentation Award Session. Congrats, Asha and Hao!
June 2025Can was invited to give a plenary talk at the 2025 Amazon Consumer Science Summit.
May 2025Asha and Hao started their internships at Meta and Amazon, respectively. Congrats!
March 2025Welcome to new visiting students, André Hernán Quisaguano Paredes from Escuela Politécnica Nacional and Haechang Kim from Seoul National University!