Bo Li
Bo Li is a tenured Associate Professor at the College of Engineering, Peking University, where he has served since 2022.
Prior to this appointment, he held a tenured faculty position at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), first as an Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2020 and then as an Associate Professor from 2020 to 2022.
He began his academic career as a Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was affiliated with the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories and the Powell-Booth Computational Science Laboratory from 2009 to 2013.
Prof. Li received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Caltech in 2009, following a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (now Beihang University).
His research lies at the intersection of computational mechanics and materials science, with a particular focus on the dynamic behavior of materials under extreme conditions, multiphysics and multiscale modeling, meshfree computational methods, computational fracture mechanics, and high-performance CAE software.
His recent work also explores the mechanics and modeling of additive manufacturing processes.
Prof. Li has received multiple distinctions, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2017 and a NASA Glenn Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2014.
His research contributions have advanced the modeling capabilities for complex material systems and informed engineering applications ranging from aerospace structures to defense technologies.
