Dr. Sili Deng received her doctoral degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. After being a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT as an assistant professor in 2019. Her research focuses on energy conversion and storage, specifically, the fundamental understanding of combustion and emissions, physics-informed data-driven modeling of reacting flows, carbon-neutral energetic materials, and flame synthesis of materials for catalysis and energy storage.  At MIT, Dr. Deng received the d’Arbeloff Career Development Chair in 2019 and Class of 1954 Career Development Chair in 2022.  Dr. Deng also received the Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute in 2016 and NSF CAREER Award in 2022.