Dr. Yang Li is an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Ocean, and Life Sciences at Dalian University of Technology. She received her PhD from Liaoning Normal University (2011). From December 2011 to March 2016, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From January to February 2018, she visited the University of Leicester in the UK for teaching. From December 2019 to November 2020, she was a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. She is engaged in research in computational chemistry and machine learning, mainly focusing on studying transition metal catalysis mechanisms, characterization of novel aromatic systems and parameter development, and machine-learning algorithms for catalyst design and reaction prediction.