Tianyi Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at . Her research centers around sensemaking, crowd computing, intelligent user interface, and their applications on human-AI teaming in domain-specific decision making.

Dr. Li designs and develops systems for computer-supported cooperative work. Her research includes crowdsourced sensemaking, to scaffold collective intelligence of novice crowds for tasks such as intelligence analysis. She also conducts research and devise visual analytics tools with user-centered design to combine and coordinate human and artificial intelligence in broader, real-world decision-making processes such as data security and hyperparameter tuning. Throughout her work, Dr. Li investigates and evaluates the UX impact of different human-AI interaction patterns.

Dr. Li received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from , co-advised by and . Before that, she received her Bachelor's degree from . She also studied at and as an exchange student.

Previously, Dr. Li was an Assistant Professor in the at . She has also worked in the in , the UX team in , and .