Kai Li

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: 李凯; born 1954) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor of Princeton University. He is noted for his work on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) and co-founding the storage deduplication company Data Domain Inc. which was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2009.

In 2012, Li was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for advances in data storage and distributed computer systems.