Liping Yu Associate Professor of Physics 1999  B.S., Zhejiang University 2002  M.S., Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics 2009 Ph.D., North Carolina State University Office: 105 Bennett Hall Phone: (207) 581-1029 Email: liping.yu@maine.edu Research Interests: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Inverse design of materials for energy and electronics Density functional theory and first-principles computation Point defects in