Keqin Li (Chinese: 李克勤) was born in Songjiang, Shanghai, China, on May 26, 1963. 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. He was the originator of processor allocationand job scheduling in partitionable mesh connected systems. With Kam-Hoi Cheng, he was the initiator of three-dimensional box packing. He was one of the creators of the linear array with a reconfigurable pipelined bus system (LARPBS) computing model and also a principal contributor to parallel computing using optical interconnections. He was elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Computer Society in 2015 for