Yuan Li is an associate professor with Ph.D. and a master’s supervisor. Yuan and his research group mainly investigate the preparation and property (including optical properties, electrical properties, and corrosion resistance performance) of metal films. He has published more than 30 related research papers in academic journals. Research interests include physical vapor deposition transition metal nitride coating and its application;design, preparation, properties and engineering application of anti-corrosion and anti-wear coating/plating surface material; and design, preparation and performance research of special functional coating materials, such as optical coating, photoelectric coating, color coating.