Lili is the Director in Microsoft Research who manages the Creative Systems Group and Social Computing Group.

The group is currently working on several projects in the area of social computing and design including Kodu (xbox 360 game to teach kids programming concepts), Salsa (email with social networking and redesigning inbox), c2 (cell phone aggregation), Micropedia (company wide wiki), and Tattoo (rethinking the way we view and share files in the operating system). The team also is responsible for several events including: Microsoft Research Design Expo and the MSR Social Computing Symposium.

From 2004-2006 Lili was the Director of User Experience for the Windows Division, overseeing design, user research, user assistance as well as advanced development for the release of Windows Vista.

Lili joined Microsoft in 1995, in the Virtual Worlds research group working on social applications such as V-Chat and Comic Chat.  She then started the Social Computing in Microsoft Research in 2001, where the team built various social networking prototypes including Wallop (which spun out as a separate company in 2004) and Photostory (which shipped in Windows), and the Sapphire project (early vision of the redesign of windows)

Prior to Microsoft, Lili worked in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer in the User Interface research team. She worked on Quicktime Conferencing and QuicktimeVR.

Lili is also a registered architect, and worked in Tokyo and Los Angeles for Nihon Sekkei and Skidmore Owings and Merrill on commercial urban design and large scale building projects.  She has taught at NYU- Interactive Telecommunications as well as Harvard University.

She was born in Tokyo, is married with three boys, and lives in Bellevue Washington.