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Spring 2026: Zachary Monem, Ouidad Abourazzouk, David Polacek, Noah Elledge, Matthew Trinh-Pham, Daniel Cordero, Like Li, Ram Kumar Pal, Mahbubur Rahman, Brandon Castellano, Mihir Patel, Matias Compos-Tejera

Faculty

Dr. Like Li

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of Central Florida

Office: Eng-1 407D

Contact: like.li@ucf.edu, (407) 823-2416

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, 2013

  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 2010

  • B.S., Central South University, China, 2007

Employment

  • 12/2023 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida (UCF)

  • 08/2023 – 12/2023, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSSU)

  • 08/2017 – 08/2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSSU

  • 2016 – 2017, Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University

  • 2015 – 2016, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

  • 2013 – 2015, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellows/Associates

  • Ram Kumar Pal (PhD from IIT Delhi, India) (2024 – present)

Students

PhD Students

  • Mahbubur Rahman (2023 – present)

  • Ouidad Abourazzouk (2023 – present)

MS Students

  • Mihir Patel (2025 – present)

Undergraduate Students

  • David Polacek (2025 – present)

  • Matias Campos-Tejera (2025 – present)

  • Daniel Cordero (2025 – present)

  • Noah Elledge (2025 – present)

  • Anthony Hickey (2025 – present)

  • Dany Chatila (2026 – present)

  • Jialing Chen (2026 – present)

  • Jack Roest (2026 – present)

  • Nicolas Windyga (2026 – present)

Former Students

  • Zachary Monem (2024 – 2026, graduated with MS, NSF GRFP Honorable Mention)

  • Matthew Trinh-Pham (2025 – 2026, graduated with MS)

  • Brandon Castellano (2025 – 2026, graduated with MS)

  • Jeevith Kanagarajan (2024 – 2025, graduated with MS)

  • William Pavon (2025, worked as MS researcher in our group)

  • Van Nguyen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)

  • Leonardo Ballen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)

Previous at MSSU

Postdoctoral Research Fellows/Associates

  • Jian Zhao (PhD from University of Waterloo) (2022 – 2023, now Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University)

  • Wei Huang (PhD from Arizona State University) (2020 – 2021)

Students

  • Ashreet Mishra (2020 – 2024, graduated with PhD)

  • David Korba (2021 – 2023, NSF GRFP Awardee, graduated with PhD)

  • Oliver (Nanqiao) Wang (2018 – 2022, graduated with PhD)

  • Matt Carter (2022 – 2023, graduated with MS)

  • Shuqi Zhou (2019 – 2021, graduated with MS)

  • Mitchell Copper (2019 – 2022, graduated with MS)

  • Marwa El Amrani (2022 -2023, graduated with MS)

  • Ouidad Abourazzouk (2022 – 2023, graduated with MS)

  • Gabriela Gomez Reyes

  • Daniel Nicholson

  • Nathan Chandler

  • Nirmal Bhatt

  • Greg  Gallagher

  • Zach Volan

  • Eric Million

  • Liam Nelson

  • Mangesh Joshi

  • Seshendra Palakurthy

  • Eddie (Zhenxiao) Song

  • Wenpei He