Yuli is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (G) and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) with over 24 years geotechnical and civil engineering experience in Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Russia, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. She worked in Hong Kong for 9 years until 2005, after which she moved to the UK and was employed as the Chief Civil Engineer of Tensar International, the inventor of polymeric soil reinforcing and stabilising geogrids.
Yuli is the immediate past Chair of the UK Committee of the International Geosynthetics Society and a Liveryman and Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Engineers. She is also a registered STEM Ambassador and the first civilian to become a Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers (FInstRE) in May 2018.