Dr. Rui Li is a member of IEEE and the vice-chair for the Women in Engineering (WIE) of the IEEE North Jersey Section. She is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at Montclair State University. Her research focuses on Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction, encompassing multimodal information processing for immersive interaction, intelligent interactive systems for vehicles and robots, and affective computing for friendly human-machine interaction. Dr. Li is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary study of human emotion, behavior, and cognition. She actively integrates them into her research on multimodal human-machine interaction and intelligent machines.