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Tragic Loss: Princeton Researcher Haoran Li Dies at 30
9/27/2025
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- Haoran Li, Princeton University postdoctoral researcher, died September 25; the cause remains undisclosed.
- Li defended his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, and earned a degree from Tsinghua University.
- He contributed to a prize-winning 2024 paper on machine learning in power magnetics.
- Li's death is at least Princeton's eighth student death in four years, four suicides.
