Dr. Ying Li leads the Laboratory for Polymer Digital Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vision
The most pressing engineering challenge the world faces today is a reduction of our dependence on non-renewable energy sources by increasing energy efficiency and developing new sustainable energy sources to meet growing demands. This challenge requires fundamental research to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter down to the atomic scale. Therefore, my research group mainly focuses on the analysis and simulation of materials to create new methods for investigating material behaviors spanning the atomic and microscopic scales, which can be used to discover and design new materials. It is my firmly held belief that an enormous number of new materials, from which we could develop technologies that would fundamentally and dramatically improve human welfare, remain to be discovered. Furthermore, I am optimistic that the pace of materials discovery can be rapidly accelerated with the development of the right computational tools. For this reason, my research group, Laboratory for Polymer Digital Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focuses on developing and applying novel multiscale and multiphysics modeling methods, integrated with machine learning and data science techniques, to computationally design advanced polymeric materials, with emphasis on materials for advanced manufacturing, extreme environments, and sustainable energy solutions.
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