Yongli Lu
Optical Coatings And Material Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongli Lu is an optical coatings and materials engineer with seven years of hands-on experience bridging nanomaterials research and applied device engineering. Trained as a PhD candidate in Physical Chemistry at MIT within Moungi Bawendi’s group, he has led fabrication and characterization of perovskite solar cells, LEDs, photon upconversion devices, and nanocrystalline materials using an extensive suite of microscopy, spectroscopy, and thin-film deposition techniques. He pairs deep experimental skill in cleanroom semiconductor processes with data-driven modeling using MATLAB and Python, and is exploring DFT, graph neural networks and generative models to design organic triplet annihilators. His industry experience includes an optics-focused internship at Meta and a current role at Apple developing optical coatings and materials, reflecting a trajectory from fundamental discovery to product-relevant solutions. Based in Mountain View, he combines a chemistry/applied-math background with front-end open-source contributions to UI tooling, signaling both hands-on lab expertise and practical software fluency.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of Rochester
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
uid10
preact10
css-frameworks10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
tailwindcss9
jquery7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
easysoft/zui
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
ZUI is an HTML5 front UI framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 136 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yongli primarily contributed to the front-end UI framework, making updates to templates and core files. Their commits involved adding and optimizing templates, indicating a focus on the user interface and presentation layer. The user also replaced deprecated jQuery methods and made style changes to enhance the visual appearance and user experience of the framework.
front-uiui-frameworkcssjavascriptframework
YonLJ/purephp
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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