Dr. Lily (Li) Qiao is a senior lecturer in space engineering at UNSW Canberra. She has a Ph.D. in Guidance Navigation and Control. Her research interests lie in autonomous navigation and space systems engineering. Lily's teaching crosses the postgraduate and undergraduate. Most of her time, she teaches at master's levels for the UNSW Canberra Space program. She is the chair and founder of the Aerospace chapter and the student counselor at the IEEE ACT section.