Mingye Li obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Integrated Circuit Design from Dalian University of Science and Technology in China and his MSc in Photonics from Ghent University in Belgium. He completed his master's thesis on thin film linear polarizers in the Liquid Crystals and Photonics group at UGent. Currently, he is working on homeotropic alignment of photoalignment materials and measuring the properties of nematic liquid crystals within the same group. In 2023, he was awarded a PhD fellowship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).