Muyang X Li

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
East Lansing, MI
Jan 2011 to Dec 2013
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Jan 2010 to Dec 2010
Research Assistant
Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Sep 2009 to May 2010
Teaching Assistant
Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism

Feb 2008 to Jun 2009
Undergraduate Researcher

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Sep 2011
Ph.D. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Sep 2009 to Jul 2011
M.S. in Chemical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sep 2005 to Jun 2009
B.S. in Bioengineering

Mechanical, chemical and biological conversion processes of biomass: millings, drying, thermochemical treatments, enzymatic hydrolysis, microbial culturing, fermentation scale-up/down, extractions, etc. Wet chemistry analytical assays: carbohydrate analysis, lignin analysis, protein analysis, etc. Chromatographic equipment: HPLC, Size Exclusion Chromatography, GC/MS, Thin Layer Chromatography. Spectroscopies: UV/Vis spectroscopy, Mass spectroscopies, NMR (solid-state, solution-state, HSQC 2D). Statistics and modeling: experimental design, significance analysis, multivariate regression, chemometric modeling, principal component analysis. Engineering and mathematical software and tools: LABVIEW, Aspen Plus, Matlab, Minitab, Mathematica, etc.

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
East Lansing, MI
Jan 2011 to Dec 2013
Research Assistant
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Jan 2010 to Dec 2010
Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering and Material Science Department, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Sep 2009 to May 2010
Teaching Assistant

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2011 to 2014
PhD in Biosystems Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2009 to 2011
MS in Chemical Engineering

HPLC, GC/MS, NMR, MATLAB, Excel, Biomass characterization, Pretreatment, Fermentation, Statistical modeling