Hui Li was born in Heilongjiang province, China. She received the B.E. degree in optical engineering from Tianjin University (TJU), China, in 2007 and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, in 2012. She is currently an associate professor at Dalian University of Technology.

In 2010, she was awarded the EMECW (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window) scholarship and visited the Department of Electrical and Information Technology at Lund University for 13 months. In 2011, she received the scholarship from CSC (Chinese Scholarship Council) scholarship for her Ph.D. study in KTH. Her current research interests include compact antennas in MIMO systems, theory of characteristic mode, antenna-user interactions, reconfigurable antennas, and RFID antennas in wireless communications.