Keqin Li

{{Short description|Chinese computer scientist (born 1963)}}

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Keqin Li ({{zh|s=李克勤}}) was born in Songjiang, Shanghai, China, on May 26, 1963.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.newpaltz.edu/~lik|title=Keqin Li's home page|website=Keqin Li's home page}} He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1985, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Houston in 1990. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Computer Science Department at the University of Houston.

He is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is also a member of the SUNY Distinguished Academy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.suny.edu/distinguished-academy|title=SUNY Distinguished Academy|website=SUNY Distinguished Academy}}

He was the originator of processor allocation{{Cite journal|title=A two-dimensional buddy system for dynamic resource allocation in a partitionable mesh connected system|journal=Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing|volume=12|pages=79–83|doi=10.1016/0743-7315(91)90032-5|year=1991|last1=Li|first1=Keqin|last2=Cheng|first2=Kam-Hoi}}

and job scheduling{{Cite journal|title=Static job scheduling in partitionable mesh connected systems|journal=Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing|volume=10|issue=2|pages=152–159|doi=10.1016/0743-7315(90)90024-J|year=1990|last1=Li|first1=Keqin|last2=Cheng|first2=Kam Hoi}} in partitionable mesh connected systems. With Kam-Hoi Cheng, he was the initiator of three-dimensional box packing.{{Cite journal|title=Three dimensional packing|journal=SIAM Journal on Computing|volume=19|issue=5|pages=847–867|doi=10.1137/0219059|year=1990|last1=Li|first1=Keqin|last2=Cheng|first2=Kam-Hoi}} He was one of the creators of the linear array with a reconfigurable pipelined bus system (LARPBS) computing model{{Cite journal|title=Linear array with a reconfigurable pipelined bus system|issue=3–4|pages=237–258|journal=Information Sciences|volume=106|doi=10.1016/S0020-0255(97)10013-5|date=May 1998}} and also a principal contributor to parallel computing using optical interconnections.{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780792382966|title=Parallel computing using optical interconnections|website=Parallel computing using optical interconnections|isbn=9780792382966|publisher=Springer|year=1998|series=The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science}}

He was elevated to Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/index.html|title=IEEE Fellow Program|website=IEEE Fellow Program}} of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/|title=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}} (IEEE) and the IEEE Computer Society in 2015 for contributions to parallel and distributed computing.