2001年9月至2003年8月，美國麻省理工大學迪博納科學技術史研究所(Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT)博士後。
2005年3月至8月，英國李約瑟研究所(Needham Research Institute)梅隆學者(Fellow of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)。
2005年9月至2006年12月，德國圖賓根大學 (Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen) 中國與韓國研究所 (Institute for Chinese and Korean Studies)洪堡學者(Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)，客座教授。
研究興趣
天文學史，明清時期西方科學在中國的傳播，神秘知識與中國傳統文化，明清思想史。
講授課程：
1. 西方科學史，中國科學技術大學科技史專業研究生基礎課
2. 中國天文學史，中國科學技術大學科技史專業研究生專業課
3. 科技史英文文獻選讀，中國科學技術大學科技史專業研究生專業課
4. 西方科學史前沿，中國科學技術大學科技史專業博士生基礎課
5. 西方科學史，中國科學技術大學本科生公選課（雙語課）
6. 科學簡史·科學革命篇，教育部國家級精品視頻公開課
7. 科學簡史·中國科學篇，教育部國家級精品視頻公開課
8. 歷史上西方科學文化的東傳與影響，上海交通大學2015年夏季學期海內外學者開設課程
9. China Panaroma，中國科學技術大學留學生必修課（英語授課）
10. Western Science and the Changing World View: Scientific Thoughts in 17th-18th Century China and Korea，德國圖賓根大學2006年秋研究生選修課（英語授課）
3. Shi Yunli and Xing Gang (2006): “The First Chinese Version of the Newtonian Tables of the Sun and Moon”. In Chen, K.-Y., Orchiston, W., Soonthornthum, B., and Strom, R. (eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Oriental Astronomy. Chiang Mai, University of Chiang Mai Press: 91-96.
28. Shi Yunli (2000): “The Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing: A Reconsideration”. Journal of the History of Astronomy 31, 136-147.
1. Astronomical Reform in 18th Century China: Later Volumes of the Thorough Investigation in Calendrical Astronomy Imperially Composed Revisited. 2006年10月, Institute for the Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions, National Center for Scientific Researches, Paris.
2. From Ingolstadt to Beijing: Germany Background of Ignaz Koegler’s Astronomical Works in China. International Workshop on Institutions and Networks: the Transmission of Western Knowledge to China in the 17th to Early 20th Centuries. 2006年8月, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen.
3. Imperial Rites, Catholic Missions and Eclipse Observations: Astronomy and Politics in the Early Qing Dynasty. 2006年7月, Institute for Chinese and Korean Studies, Tuebingen University, Tuebingen.
4. The Transmission of Western Astronomical Techniques in the 18th Century China: Ignaz Koegler and Newton’s Astronomy in China. China Workshop on Technik und Weltbild. 2006年1月, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
5. Copernicus vs. Tycho in China: a Closer Look at Smogulecki and Xue Fengzuo’ True Principles of the Pacing of the Heavens. The 11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia. 2005年8月, Munich.
6. The Transmission of Newton’s Astronomy from China to Korea in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. The Sixth International Symposium on the History of Mathematics & Mathematical Education Using Chinese Characters. 2005年8月, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
7. The Tension between Astronomy and Astrology in Ancient China: Did It Really Exist? Chinese Readings Group. 2005年6月, Needham Institute, Cambridge (UK).
8. Social Forces behind the Jesuit Move from Tycho to Newton in China. Workshop on Science and Empire. 2005年4月，Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (UK).
10. The First Chinese Version of the Newtonian Tables of the Sun and Moon. The Fifth International Conference on Oriental Astronomy. 2004年10月, University of Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai (Thailand).
11. Newtonian Astronomy for Chinese Use. The Tenth International Conference in the History of Science in China. 2004年7月, 哈爾濱.
12. Copernicanism in the 17th -18th Century China: Opportunities and Difficulties. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. 2002年4月, Cambridge (USA).
13. The Islamic influence on the astronomical instrumentation of Korea. The Eighth International Conference on the History of Science in China. 2001年10月，香港.
15. The Exchange of Astronomical Knowledge between China and Koryo. Seminar on Astronomy in Koryo Kingdom. 1997年10月, Yansei University Observatory and Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul.
16. Aristotelian Cosmology in China: A Review of the Classic Huan You Quan. The Second International Conference on Oriental Astronomy. 1996年10月，鷹潭.
