Yan Li received the B.E., M. E., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Hiroshima Univ. in 1982, 1984, and 1990, respectively. She has been an associate professor at the University of Queensland since 2008. She is the winner of the 2008 Queensland Smart Woman-Smart State Awards in ICT as well as one of the Head of Department awardees for research publications in 2006 and 2008. She is an Australian Reader to assess Australia Research Council Discovery and Linkage Project Proposals and has organized the RSKT 2009 and CME 2010 international conferences. Her research interest includes signal/image processing, independent component analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Blind Signal Separation and artificial intelligence.