Lee Mong Li is a Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. She has extensive experience in data management, including data cleaning and data fusion (combining data from disparate sources), and in analysis of semistructured and spatio-temporal data. She has published more than 150 papers in major database conferences and journals, and is the co-author of two books on ``Designing Semi-structured Database'' and ``Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining''. She plays a key role in several multi-disciplinary government funded research projects to build systems that are practical and deployable. She is actively involved in the research community, holding various key roles and serving on the Program Committees of prestigious database and data mining conferences.

She was awarded the IEEE Singapore Information Technology Gold Medal for being the top student in the Computer Science program in 1989. Consultant at QUIQ USA in 2000. She was the co-recipient of Singapore's President Technology Award in 2014.She is also a co-inventor of an AI system that uses deep learning to screen for major eye conditions (diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma suspect and age-related macular degeneration) from retinal images.