2019-current, Associate professor, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS (NAOC)

2017-2019, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Nottingham, UK

2013-2017, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago, USA

2009-2013, PhD, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2006-2009, M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2001-2006, B.S., Beijing University of Areonautics and Astronautics, China

Dark matter and dark energy, Gravitational lensing in Galaxies and galaxy clusters, Applications of machine learning in Astrophysics

1. Cheng, Ting-Yun; Li, Nan; Conselice, Christopher J.; Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso; Dye, Simon; Metcalf, Robert B., Identifying strong lenses with unsupervised machine learning using convolutional autoencoder, 2020, MNRAS, 494, 3750C

2. Pearson, James; Li, Nan; Dye, Simon, The use of convolutional neural networks for modelling large optically-selected strong galaxy-lens samples, 2019, MNRAS, 488, 991P

3. Lanusse, Fran？ois; Ma, Quanbin;Li, Nan; Collett, Thomas E.; Li, Chun-Liang; Ravanbakhsh, Siamak; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Póczos, Barnabás, CMU DeepLens: deep learning for automatic image-based galaxy-galaxy strong lens finding, 2018, MNRAS, 473, 3895L

4. Li, Nan; Gladders, Michael D.; Heitmann, Katrin; Rangel, Esteban M.; Child, Hillary L.; Florian, Michael K.; Bleem, Lindsey E.; Habib, Salman; Finkel, Hal J., The Importance of Secondary Halos for Strong Lensing in Massive Galaxy Clusters across Redshift, 2019, ApJ, 878, 122L

5. Li, Nan; Gladders, Michael D.; Rangel, Esteban M.; Florian, Michael K.; Bleem, Lindsey E.; Heitmann, Katrin; Habib, Salman; Fasel, Patricia, PICS: Simulations of Strong Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Clusters, 2016, ApJ, 828, 54L

6. Li, Nan; Mao, Shude; Gao, Liang; Loeb, Abraham; di Stefano, R., Effects of supermassive binary black holes on gravitational lenses, 2012, MNRAS, 419, 2424L