The sudden death of a promising young Princeton University Chinese researcher and innovator in the field of AI-powered electronics has shocked academic and online communities in the United States and China. Li Haoran was conducting pioneering research in machine learning to improve magnetic materials. Li received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2019 and began at Princeton later that year. He earned his master’s degree in 2021 through the Princeton Power Electronics Research Lab. In 2023, Li was awarded the First Place Prize Paper Award by IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL).