About Me

I am Tianyou Li (李天佑), a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Ilias Bilionis. I joined in Fall 2026 and currently work on Purdue’s ICoN-PCL initiative.

Previously, I was a Research Assistant at Cornell University, where I also earned my M.Eng. in ECE. I received my B.Eng. degrees from the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Contact: li6097@purdue.edu.

Research Interests

• Applied Category Theory
• Scientific Machine Learning (Gaussian processes & Bayesian modeling)
• Autonomous Laboratories
• Agentic AI (harness design & formal descriptions)

News and Updates

• Aug 2026: I joined Purdue ME as a PhD student, advised by Prof. Ilias Bilionis.
• Dec 2025: My personal website is officially online.
• May 2025: I graduated from Cornell University with an M.Eng. degree in ECE.
• Jul 2024: I received my B.Eng. degree from the University of Liverpool with First Class Honours.
• Dec 2023: A new paper on perovskite-based neuromorphic computing was accepted by Nano Energy (IF: 16.8).