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
July 2026Can was awarded an NSF CDS&E grant together with Prof. Brian Tackett on agentic AI for electrochemical reaction mechanism discovery.
June 2026Our paper on using LLM for diagnosing infeasibility was awarded the INFOR Best Paper Award.
May 2026Sai and Hao started their internships at Amazon. Akshdeep started his internship at Argonne National Laboratory. Congrats, Sai, Hao, and Akshdeep!
April 2026Asha successfully defended her PhD thesis and will join Meta as a data scientist. Congrats, Asha!
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!