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Dr. Li received his B.E. from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His doctoral research focused on developing optical signal processing technologies on silicon and silicon nitride platforms. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. While at NIST, Dr. Li developed techniques for chip-scale quantum frequency conversion, octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs, and optical frequency synthesis, as well as photonic interfaces for interrogating rubidium atomic systems. His work earned him several accolades, including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Sigma Xi and the Ph.D. Thesis Award from Georgia Institute of Technology. He also received the Sigma Xi Outstanding Poster Award and the Distinguished Associate Award from NIST. Since joining Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Li has been recognized with the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2019 and the OSA Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award in 2020.
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