Yuan Li is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Before attending UHC-CH, she received her Master's degree from the School of Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests fall into the area of interactive information retrieval (IIR) and human-computer interaction (HCI). Specifically, her dissertation focus on cross-session search behavior.