Yunyao Li is the Head of Machine Learning, Apple Knowledge Platform, a world-class team building the next-generation of machine learning solutions in the Knowledge Graph Platform at Apple and help power features including Siri and Spotlight. She was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Senior Research Manager with IBM Almaden Research Center, where she managed the Scalable Knowledge Intelligence group. She was a member of the New Voices program of the American National Academies. She was also a Master Inventor and a member of IBM Academy of Technology. Her expertise is in the interdisciplinary areas of natural language processing, databases, human-computer interaction, and information retrieval. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed, referred articles, and filed over 50 patents in these areas. Yunyao is particularly interested in designing, developing, and analyzing large scale systems that are usable by a wide spectrum of users. Towards this direction, her current focus is on AI for text. She is a founding member of SystemT, a state-of-the-art information extraction engine currently powering multiple IBM products, and Gumshoe, a novel enterprise search engine that has been powering IBM intranet and ibm.com search from 2010 to 2017. Her contributions in these projects have recognized by multiple prestigious IBM internal awards. Yunyao is also passionate about improving the diversity for the STEM field. She has been actively mentoring women and under-represented minorities. She also regularly organizes technical talks and activities for Women's Network of Northern California in IBM. She has served on the MentorNet Mentor-Protégé Council since 2013 and the BSCS External Advisory Board of San Jose State University since 2017. If you are passionate about building scalable AI systems for text, contact me for open positions in our group. Personal website: https://yunyaoli.github.io