is a senior lead instructional designer at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. She collaborates with faculty to conduct research, program evaluations, and learning outcomes assessments pertinent to innovative curriculum designs and educational technologies. She is responsible for fostering continuous improvement in teaching, student experiences, and educational programs through the use of development and learning theories. Her areas of focus include, among others, experiential learning, internationalizing curriculum, online learning, and educational technology innovations.

Prior to joining ECE Illinois, she worked at IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY in z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-represented students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory programming courses.

Ziyue Li received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 2019. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in ECE from the same institution with the Systems Networking Research Group. She has assisted with undergraduate ECE courses for six semesters and was involved with the development of numerous online courses offered through Coursera. Off campus, she has interned with various teams at Google in designing reliable systems for use in production. Her current research focuses on mobile computing and sensing systems in the acoustic domain.