Jian-yang Li
Senior Scientist at Planetary Science Institute
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJian-yang Li is a senior planetary scientist with over nine years of professional experience studying asteroids and comets and a research career spanning major NASA missions including Deep Impact, Stardust-NExT, DIXI, and Dawn. Based at the Planetary Science Institute in Virginia, he leads photometric and thermal studies of small Solar System bodies and develops reflectance modeling techniques applied across multiple mission targets. Trained in physics and computer science at USTC and holding a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland, he combines rigorous observational analysis with computational modeling expertise. Jian-yang has a track record of translating mission data into insights about surface properties and potential human destinations, often leading the photometric analysis efforts for mission teams. Colleagues describe him as someone who brings childhood curiosity about the cosmos to methodical, mission-driven science, balancing hands-on data work with broader mission participation.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Computer Science, B.E., Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaPh.D., Astronomy, Ph.D., Astronomy at University of Maryland
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
astrology10
asteroids10
science10
python10
astrophysics10
orbital-mechanics10
astronomy10
astrodynamics10
core-library10
astropy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jianyangli/ALMACeres
Nov 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
jianyangli/sbpy
Nov 2017 - Jul 2023
A Python package for small bodies research
Contributions:140 pushes, 94 branches in 5 years 8 months
python-packagepython
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