Summary
Roderick Li is a materials scientist and engineer with eight years of experience translating polymer and composite research into practical 3D printing applications across automotive, medical, and aerospace sectors. As Partner at Shenzhen DJI Innovations and an Assistant Professor and lab director at New York University, he bridges academic rigor with industry product development, focusing on polymers like ABS, nylon, PP, PLA and elastomers for functional, high-performance parts. His work emphasizes molding and mechanical performance optimization and the design of composite formulations for structural and functional prototypes. Based in Yukon, Oklahoma, he combines hands-on lab leadership and teaching with strategic industrial partnerships, and maintains a steady stream of study projects on GitHub that reflect an experimental, applied research mindset.
8 years of coding experience
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)