Currently, Yang Li is a professor (untenured) at Wuhan University working on reconfigurable structures and metamaterials. Before this, Yang Li (2017-2020) worked at Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Professor Sergio Pellegrino on developing a reconfigurable platform for a novel phased array antenna. Before that, He (2012-2017) did his DPhil/PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Zhong You on developing origami energy-absorbing structures.