Dr. Gang Li is a professor and D. W. Reynolds Emerging Scholar of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He was an awardee of the National Science Foundation Early Career Award. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Electronics and has been serving on the ASME Committee on Computing in Applied Mechanics since 2007. Dr. Li's scholarly articles on computational mechanics and finite element method frequently appear in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Journal of Applied Physics.