Dr. Rui Li is a tenure-track assistant professor of the School of Computing at Montclair State University. Dr. Li's 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 behaviors and emotions, and she actively integrates it into her research on multimodal human-machine interaction.