Xiuling Li

Xiuling Li is a distinguished electrical and computer engineering professor in the field of nanostructured semiconductor devices. She is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fellow of the Dow Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was a Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Education Li attended Peking University and graduated with her B.S in Physical Chemistry in 1986. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles from 1989 to 1993, where she completed her PhD research under the supervision of Nathan S. Lewis.

Career After completing her PhD, Li worked as a postdoctoral research associate at California Institute of Technology from 1994 to 1998 under the supervision of Nathan S. Lewis. At the time, she was the only female engineer working in the MNTL cleanrooms.

Li was promoted to research assistant professor at UIUC in 1998, where she remained until 2001. In 2003 she was promoted to R&D Manager, where she remained until 2007.

Research Li's research focuses on novel fabrication and processing for nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices. She has also contributed to efforts to develop DNA-based data storage devices.

Li holds over 20 patents related to MacEtch, S-RuM, and novel semiconductor nanowires. She has published over 160 per-reviewed journal publications, and has written 4 chapters in books. She has also served as editor for numerous journals, including Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal, Guest editor for Journal of Electronic Materials, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, and Deputy Editor for Applied Physics Letters. She has advised over 18 Ph.D. students and numerous M.S. students and undergraduates.