Dr. Fengyan Li received her BS and MS degrees in Computational Mathematics from Peking University in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and her PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2004. Before joining RPI in 2006, she held a postdoc position at the University of South Carolina.Dr. Li's research interests and activities are mainly in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Her research focuses on designing and analyzing robust and highly accurate computational methods - especially structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods - with applications in wave propagation, fluid dynamics, rarefied gas dynamics, plasma physics, astrophysics, and nonlinear optics. Her recent research centers on multiscale simulations and reduced-order modeling for kinetic transport problems, supported by NSF and AFOSR. Dr. Li received the Stella Dafermos Award at Brown University in 2004 and was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2008. In 2009, she was granted an NSF CAREER award for her research in high-order methods and their applications. Dr. Li was a plenary speaker at the 2015 Annual Meeting of Computational Mathematics in China (Guangzhou, China), the International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM, London, UK) in 2018, the North American High Order Methods Conference (NAHOMCon, San Diego, USA) in 2022, and the first Annual Meeting of the SIAM-NNP Section (Newark, 2023). Currently, Dr. Li serves on the editorial boards of IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Mathematics of Computation, and SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis. She was an associate editor for SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2014–2019), CSIAM Transactions on Applied Mathematics (2020–2025), and Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) (2014–2024). Since 2023, Dr. Li has been a member of the Scientific Committee of ICOSAHOM.Dr. Li actively contributes to the scientific community through professional service. She chaired the SIAM Committee on Section Activities (2022–2023) and the Section Nominating Committee for the SIAM-NNP Section (2024), and currently serves on the SIAM Nominating Committee. She has been deeply involved in Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASC) Research Network. In 2015, she co-organized a mini-symposium and served as a career panelist at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Beijing, China, and in 2024, she co-organized a 2-week ICERM–SIAM Workshop on Empowering a Diverse Computational Mathematics Research Community. She was a mentor in the AWM Mentor Network for more than a decade, served on the AWM Advance-Research Network Committee (2017–2020), and has been a faculty advisor of the AWM Student Chapter at RPI since 2016. Dr. Li is currently a member of the Steering Committee of WINASC and the AWM–SIAM Committee, and she was recently elected to the 2025 class of AWM Fellows.