Dr. Yingzi Lin is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She is the founder and director of the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems (IHMS) Research Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. She is the founding program director of the Interdisciplinary MS in Human Factors Graduate Program. Her area of expertise includes: intelligent human-machine systems, human factors and applications in healthcare and transportation safety, human cognition and sensing, multimodality information fusion, human-machine interface design, human-robot interaction and Human-AI. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and major industries such as GM and BOSE. She is a recipient of prestigious research awards, including NSF CAREER award and NSERC UFA (University Faculty Award). She has published over two hundred technical papers in referred journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.