New Faculty Spotlight: Yaning Li
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Yaning Li joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor. She earned her PhD at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering, and additive manufacturing; mechanics of innovative architectured materials; mechanical metamaterials; biological materials.