Xiaonan Li received her B.Sc. degree in automation from Lanzhou Jiaotong University in 2011, her M.Sc. degree in control engineering from Lanzhou Jiaotong University in 2014, and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2021. She worked at Northwest Minzu University (2014–2017). In 2021, she moved to the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology and was promoted to associate professor. Her research topics mainly include: condition monitoring, assessment, and fault diagnosis of high-voltage power equipment.