Dr. Haorong Li obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University (2004) with an emphasis on automated fault detection and diagnostics for HVAC&R systems. He received his M.S. degree from Tsinghua University (2000, China) with an emphasis on automated control and simulation for thermal power plants, and his B.S. degree from Nanchang University (1997, China) with an emphasis on refrigeration and air conditioning engineering. Prior to his arrival at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he worked in Ray W. Herrick Laboratories as a research assistant and a post-doctorate research associate with Dr. Jim Braun on several State and Federal funded research projects with an overall funding of nearly $2 million. His primary research interests are in the modeling, analysis, control, and diagnostics of thermal systems, which involve the design of physical and empirical models, automatic control algorithms, and automated fault detection and diagnosis systems for HVAC&R systems and thermal power plants. He has been actively involved with the American Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and received the Willis Carrier/ASHRAE Fellowship and ASHRAE Grant-in-aid. The team he led won the 4th place of the 18th Annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition (Gold Division) for moving the technology resulting from his research toward commercialization.