
Keqin Li received the BS degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1985 and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Houston in 1990. He is currently a full professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz. His research interests are mainly in the design and analysis of algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, and computer networking, with particular interests in approximation algorithms, parallel algorithms, job scheduling, task dispatching, load balancing, performance evaluation, dynamic tree embedding, scalability analysis, parallel computing using optical interconnects, optical networks, and wireless networks. He has more than 200 research publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM.