Jian Li is a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in chemistry from University of Southern California in 2005. 

Li's research interests encompass design and synthesis of advanced materials for the application in organic semiconductor devices including organic light emitting devices, organic photovoltaics, organic memory and organic thin film transistors. Study and understand the mechanism of charge-transporting, energy transfer, and radiative or non-radiative decay of excited state molecules inside the organic solids.