Li Han obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2000. She arrived at Clark in 2002, after completing her postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Professor of Computer Science and currently serves as the Director of the Program in Data Science, one of the newest and growing interdisciplinary programs at Clark.

Professor Han’s doctoral study was in robotics, specifically dexterous manipulation and motion planning. At Clark, she had done research on robotics and computational study of protein folding, in collaboration with faculty from Mathematics and Chemistry, and with funding support from NSF and NIH. Her current research interest focuses on computational protein study and data science.

Professor Han has developed and taught a variety of courses at Clark, such as Introduction to Computing, Introduction to Data Science, Algorithms, Robotics, and Computer Graphics. She has been the adviser of the Clark Competitive Computing Club (C4) and the coach of the Clak programming competition teams since their founding in mid 2000s. Prior to COVID, Clark teams regularly participated and excelled in inter-collegiate contests.