{"id":63,"date":"2026-03-23T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:54:12","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring 2026:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n

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Faculty<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Like Li<\/p>\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/p>\n

University of Central Florida<\/p>\n

Office: Eng-1 407D<\/p>\n

Contact: like.li@ucf.edu<\/a>, (407) 823-2416<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Education<\/p>\n

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    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, 2013<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 2010<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    B.S., Central South University, China, 2007<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Employment<\/p>\n

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      12\/2023 \u2013 present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida (UCF)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      08\/2023 \u2013 12\/2023, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSSU)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      08\/2017 \u2013 08\/2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSSU<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      2016 \u2013 2017, Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      2015 \u2013 2016, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      2013 \u2013 2015, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

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      Postdoctoral Research Fellows\/Associates<\/h2>\n
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        Ram Kumar Pal (PhD from IIT Delhi, India) (2024 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        Students<\/h2>\n

        PhD Students<\/p>\n

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          Mahbubur Rahman (2023 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          Ouidad Abourazzouk (2023 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          MS Students<\/p>\n

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          • Mihir Patel (2025 – present)<\/li>\n
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            Undergraduate Students<\/p>\n

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              David Polacek (2025 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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              Matias Campos-Tejera (2025 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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              Daniel Cordero (2025 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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              Noah Elledge (2025 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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              Anthony Hickey (2025 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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              Dany Chatila (2026 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

            • Jialing Chen (2026 – present)<\/li>\n
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              Jack Roest (2026 – present)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

            • Nicolas Windyga (2026 – present)<\/li>\n
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              Former Students<\/p>\n

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              • Zachary Monem (2024 – 2026, graduated with MS, NSF GRFP Honorable Mention<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
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                Matthew Trinh-Pham (2025 – 2026, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                Brandon Castellano (2025 – 2026, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                Jeevith Kanagarajan (2024 – 2025, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                William Pavon (2025, worked as MS researcher in our group)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                Van Nguyen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                Leonardo Ballen (2024, worked as UG researcher in our group)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

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                Previous at MSSU<\/h2>\n

                Postdoctoral Research Fellows\/Associates<\/h2>\n
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                • Jian Zhao (PhD from University of Waterloo) (2022 – 2023, now Assistant Professor<\/strong> at Mississippi State University)<\/li>\n
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                  Wei Huang (PhD from Arizona State University) (2020 – 2021)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Students<\/h2>\n
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                    Ashreet Mishra (2020 – 2024, graduated with PhD)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    David Korba (2021 – 2023, NSF GRFP Awardee<\/strong>, graduated with PhD)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Oliver (Nanqiao) Wang (2018 – 2022, graduated with PhD)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Matt Carter (2022 – 2023, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Shuqi Zhou (2019 – 2021, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Mitchell Copper (2019 – 2022, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Marwa El Amrani (2022 -2023, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Ouidad Abourazzouk (2022 – 2023, graduated with MS)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Gabriela Gomez Reyes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Daniel Nicholson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Nathan Chandler<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Nirmal Bhatt<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Greg\u00a0 Gallagher<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Zach Volan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Eric Million<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Liam Nelson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Mangesh Joshi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Seshendra Palakurthy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Eddie (Zhenxiao) Song<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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                    Wenpei He<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/TESD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}