About
2026.01 -- Associate Professor, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
2023.01 -- 2025.12 Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
2021.10 -- 2022.06 Joint PhD program with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2015.09 -- 2022.06 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, Ph.D. in Astrophysics
2023.12 Young Scientists of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2023
2023.06 Young Data Scientist of the National Astronomical Data Center
2022.10 The presidential prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(special prize)
2021.08 The finalist of the American Statistical Association (ASA/AIG) Best Student Paper Award 2021
Research Areas
Open Clusters, Initial mass function, Milky Way structure and Evolution
Selected Publication
The MiMO Catalog: Physical Parameters and Stellar Mass Functions of 1232 Open Clusters from Gaia DR3 Li, L., Z Shao, Z Li, X Fu, 2025, ApJ 170 (5), 288
Validating Open Cluster Candidates with Photometric Bayesian Evidence Li, L., Z Li, Z Shao, 2025, AJ, 994 (2), 227
MiMO: Mixture Model for Open Clusters in Color Magnitude Diagram Li L., Shao Z.,2022 ApJ, 930, 44
Modeling Unresolved Binaries of Open Clusters in the Color-Magnitude Diagram. I. Method and Application of NGC 3532 Li, L., Shao, Z., Li, Z.-Z., Yu, J., Zhong, J., and Chen, L., 2020, ApJ, 901, 49
Robust Gaussian process regression based on iterative trimming Li, Z.-Z., Li, L., and Shao, Z., 2021, Astronomy and Computing, 36, 100483
Gaia parallax of Milky Way globular clusters - A solution of mixture model Shao, Z. and Li, L., 2019, MNRAS, 489, 3093
