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Biography
Liping Yu is a materials science engineer whose research specializes in semiconductor physics and design of new materials for next-generation electronics and sustainable energy.
Yu joined the UCF Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department under the Semiconductor Initiative in fall 2023. Before that, he was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Maine. After obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from North Carolina State University, he spent five years working for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Frontier Research Center for Inverse Design, first as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and then as an assistant research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Following this, he worked for three years at the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials at Temple University as a research assistant professor.
