Lei Li received a Ph.D. degree in Signal and Information Processing from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2001. She worked at CapInfo Ltd. from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, she joined the Center for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and in 2004 joined BUPT. She is currently a professor at BUPT. Her current research interests are intelligent information processing and natural language processing.