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Kai Li

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Kai Li
Born(1954-06-09)June 9, 1954(age 70)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJilin University
University of Science and Technology of China
Yale University
Known forDistributed shared memory(DSM),
Data Domain Inc.
Scientific career
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral advisorPaul Hudak,Alan Perlis

Kai Li(Chinese:Lý khải;born 1954) is aChinese-Americancomputer scientist and professor ofPrinceton University.He is noted for his work onDistributed Shared Memory (DSM)and co-founding the storagededuplicationcompanyData Domain Inc.which was acquired byEMC Corporationin 2009.

In 2012, Li was elected as a member into theNational Academy of Engineeringfor advances in data storage and distributed computer systems.

Background

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Kai received his Ph.D. degree fromYale Universityin 1986 and then joined Princeton University. Prior to that, he received his B.S. degree fromJilin Universityand M.S. degree fromUniversity of Science and Technology of China.

Academic contribution

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In 1986, Kai Li published his PhD dissertation entitled "Shared Virtual Memory on Loosely Coupled Microprocessors",[1]thus opening up the field of research that is now known asdistributed shared memory(DSM) which allows users to program using a shared-memory programming model on clusters.[2]Since this work, there has been a huge amount of work done to extend the idea to other areas (e.g., distributed object based systems and operating systems[citation needed]) and to improve DSM's performance. After joining Princeton, Li himself also led the Scalable High-performance Really Inexpensive MultiProcessor (SHRIMP) project,[3]which investigated how to build a high-performance parallel computer on a cluster of PC servers. Key contributions are virtual-memory mapped communication mechanism to achieve protected user-level communication which contributed significantly to theRemote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)mechanism, in theVirtual Interface Architecturestandard, and theInfinibandstandard, which are the communication mechanisms for theDirect Access File System (DAFS).

He collaborated with Fei-Fei Li as the co-PI for theImageNet[4]project to enable the deep learning revolution.[5]

He has made contributions in multiple areas in computer science, including computer architecture, operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, storage systems, machine learning, content-based search, privacy preservation.[6]He had test-of-time / most influential papers in 7 different areas in computer science (see below).

Entrepreneur experience

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During his sabbatical from Princeton in 2001, Kai is the principle founder (other co-founders are Brian Biles and Ben Zhu) ofData Domain Incorporationwhich built the first commercial deduplication storage system, opening up a new billion-dollar market. He led the initial and subsequent technology innovations for the Data Domain product line. In June 2009,EMC Corporationacquired Data Domain for $2.4 billion, outbiddingNetApp's previous offer.[7]In 2010, Data Domain product line captured 64.2% share of the market for purpose-built backup devices worldwide, including mainframes.

In Data Domain, he served as initial chief executive officer (CEO) and then chief technology officer (CTO) from October 2001 to August 2002. Since September 2002, he served as its chief scientist.

Prior to joining Data Domain, he served as an industry consultant ofAT&T,Bell Labs,Digital Equipment Corporation,Intel,andNEC.He served as a director of Pattern Insight Inc. and served as advisory board members ofEMC Corporation,Inphi Corporation,Intelresearch labs, and Open Innovation Center ofSamsungCorporation.

Test-of-Time/Influential Papers

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  • 1998 One of the 43 influential papers in 25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture.[8]
  • 2004 One of the 50 influential papers in 20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.[9]
  • 2012 ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award.[10]
  • 2017 VLDB Test-of-Time Award.[11]
  • 2019 PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize (Retrospective Most Impactful Paper from CVPR 2009).[12]
  • 2020 USENIX FAST Test-of-time award.[13]
  • 2021 Test-of-time award in 50 years of ICPP.

Selected Honors

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  • 1998 Elected as anACM fellowfor "fundamental contributions to computer systems and architecture, by introducing and demonstrating the effectiveness of Shared Virtual Memory."
  • 2011 Elected as anIEEE fellowfor "contributions to distributed shared memory, cluster communication, and deduplication storage systems."


References

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  1. ^Shared Virtual Memory on Loosely Coupled Microprocessors. PhD Thesis, Yale University, September 1986.
  2. ^J. B. Carter, D. Khandekar, and L. Kamb. Distributed shared memory: where we are and where we should be headed. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V), 1995
  3. ^Princeton SHRIMP project.
  4. ^"image-net.org".Archived fromthe originalon 2019-01-01.
  5. ^Gershgorn, Dave (July 26, 2017)."The data that transformed AI research—and possibly the world".Quartz.
  6. ^"Google scholar profile of Kai Li of Princeton University".
  7. ^"EMC Tops NetApp’s Bid for Data Domain." 1 June 2009. New York Times Online.
  8. ^Sohi, Gurindar S., ed. (1998).25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (Selected papers).doi:10.1145/285930.ISBN1581130589.
  9. ^"20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 1979-1999".
  10. ^"ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Awards".
  11. ^"VLDB Test of Time Award".
  12. ^"PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize (Retrospective Most Impactful Paper from CVPR 2009)".
  13. ^"USENIX TEST OF TIME AWARDS".4 September 2013.>
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