Kai Li

Short Bio

Kai Li, the Paul M. Wythes and Marcia R. Wythes Professor in Computer Science, earned a doctorate from Yale in 1986 and joined Princeton the same year. His research interests include ML for systems, privacy preservation for ML, data auditing, and computational neuroscience.

In 2001, he co-founded Data Domain Inc., a provider of deduplication storage systems for efficient backup and data replication for disaster recovery. The company was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2009. Professor Li is an ACM fellow, IEEE fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Washington State Academy of Sciences. In 2012, he won the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers.