Xiangfang (Lindsey) Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. Before the current position, she was a TEES Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, and actively participated in the Bioinformatics Training Program sponsored by NIH. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Her research interests are in bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, systems pharmacology, and deep learning in biomedical applications. She is awarded “2017 Outstanding Researcher of the Year” by Roy G. Perry College of Engineering of PVAMU.