Li, Mingzhi is an associate professor in the School of Electronics, PKU. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Xidian University in 1991 and 1994 respectively, and received Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 1997. His research interests include electromagnetic field theory, computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic scattering, microwave theory and technology, etc.

Dr. Li has published more than 20 research papers in core periodicals, such as Acta Electronica Sinica, Chinese Journal of Electronics, Journal of Microwaves, and Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, etc. He is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and also a committee member of the microwave branch and vacuum electronics branch of the same institute. He is the co-author of The Fundamentals of Advanced Electromagnetic Theory (Science Press, 2017).

Dr. Li has many research projects mainly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China and National Major Fundamental Research Programs. His research achievements are summarized as follows:

1) Finite-difference Time-Domain method: FDTD method is a flexible and robust computational electromagnetics method. He proposed several computational techniques to improve the precision and reduce the memory cost of the FDTD method.

2) Electromagnetic modeling of soft materials: How the nerve signals travel along the nerve fiber is still uncertain. To simulate the electromagnetic pulses in the nerve fiber will face many difficulties. He is currently focus in this area and has gained some interesting results.

3) Numerical simulation of millimeter microwave power devices: Microwave power devices are the key components of microwave radiation systems. To analyze and design the microwave power devices in millimeter band is a challenging task in the field of computational electromagnetics. He proposed a multi-level parallel computing architecture to deal with this problem and could proceed the simulation of millimeter microwave power devices successfully.