Li Keqin

Professor Keqin Li is a globally recognized academic holding concurrent professorships at Hunan University (China) and State University of New York (USA). He has held distinguished titles including National Distinguished Professor and SUNY Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on computer networking, heterogeneous systems, energy-efficient computing, and distributed systems. He has authored over 800 publications with an h-index of 64 and secured major grants from Chinese National Science Foundation and Ministry of Science and Technology.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from University of Houston (1990), B.S. from Tsinghua University (1985).

Research Interests: Includes parallel computing architectures, cloud-edge computing integration, energy-efficient algorithms, and task scheduling optimization. His work spans foundational studies to applied solutions in distributed systems, with notable contributions to network function virtualization and secure cloud data sharing.

Awards:

• Ranked top globally in distributed computing by Scopus citation metrics (2020-2021)
• IEEE Fellow (2015)
• Recipient of 1000 Plan Chinese Talent Program (2013)

Professional Activities: Editorships at ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and over 190 conference organizing roles. Principal Investigator of 12+ major research projects (2013-2025).

Labs/Teams: Leads research groups focused on parallel computing, cloud-edge systems, and energy-efficient architectures across multiple institutions.