10 things about University of South Florida alum Xuming Li

Xuming Li is attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The university was established on December 18, 1956.

BIOGRAPHY

Li is a Chinese chemist. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He is married.
2. He was born and raised in China.
3. In his LinkedIn profile, he wrote, “I like facing new challenges in research, and I believe the ability of learning new things will be the most important factor in self-improvement. I hope to work in a harmony atmosphere that people will work together to solve challenging task.”
4. Amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, he moved to the U.S. to study.
5. He and his wife have two children together.
6. He is a former neighbor of Umar Abdullah and Abdullah’s wife Samira Abdullah.
7. He and Umar were both born in 1987.
8. In 2022, while attending the University of South Florida, he lived in the Oxford Place at Tampa Palms on Palm Springs Boulevard in Tampa.
9. In 2023, he injected painkillers mixed with a noxious element at Umar and Samira’s doorstep in Tampa.
10. After his arrest in Tampa in 2023, he was released on bond and deported back to China.

TIMELINE

Li is 6’0″ tall. He describes himself as an innovative and goal-driven chemist.

2020

• In February 2020, Chemistry- A European Journal published “Gold Redox Catalysis with a Selenium Cation as Mild Oxidant”, which he co-authored with Xiaodong Shi, Jin Wang, Chiyu Wei, Pengyi Zhao, Lukasz Wojtas and Hao Chen.
• In May 2020, Organic Letters published “Diazo Activation with Diazonium Salts: Synthesis of Indazole and 1,2,4-Triazole”, which he co-authored with Shi, Wei, Wojtas, Xiaohan Ye and Chuan Shan.

2022

• In June 2022, while he was living on the second floor of the Oxford Place at Tampa Palms in Tampa, Umar and Samira, who was then pregnant, moved into the third floor of the condominium complex.
• In August 2022, he sent a text message to Umar to ask how Samira their newborn daughter were doing then came to the couple’s door with gifts for their newly born daughter. Days later, he began sending angry texts to Umar, complaining that he was losing sleep over the sounds of footsteps, a vacuum running, a door closing, a dresser drawer opening and a toilet seat being moved. He later filed a complaint with their homeowner association, which encouraged him to be understanding that his neighbors had a very young child.

2023

• On January 10, 2023, Biomaterials Science published “Development of lipidated polycarbonates with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity”, which he co-authored with Ruixuan Gao, Menglin Xue, Ning Shen, Minghui Wang, Jingyao Zhang, Chuanhai Cao and Jianfeng Cai.
• In March 2023, he called the police within 15 minutes of the arrival of Umar’s family members who were visiting at the Oxford Place at Tampa Palms. He complained about the noise of their luggage scraping across the floor. 
• In May 2023, a chemical smell was noticed in their apartment in Tampa.
• On June 27, 2023, he was caught on camera injecting at Umar’s family’s doorstep opioid painkillers methadone and hydrocodone mixed with a noxious element. At 9:30 p.m., he was arrested by Tampa Police Department officers and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa.
• On June 29, 2023, he was released on bond. Represented by Adam Leo Bantner, he pleaded not guilty to charges that included possession of a controlled substance, battery and aggravated stalking.
• He was a chemistry PhD student at the University of South Florida until July 2023.
• On December 7, 2023, it was confirmed that he had been deported.