Keqin Li is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor with the State University of New York and a National Distinguished Professor with Hunan University (China). He has authored or co-authored more than 1100 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference papers. He received several best paper awards from international conferences including PDPTA-1996, NAECON-1997, IPDPS-2000, ISPA-2016, NPC-2019, ISPA-2019, and CPSCom-2022. He holds nearly 75 patents announced or authorized by the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration. He is among the world's top five most influential scientists in parallel and distributed computing in terms of single-year and career-long impacts based on a composite indicator of the Scopus citation database. He was a 2017 recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for being listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Education for over twenty consecutive years. He received the IEEE TCCLD Research Impact Award from the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Cloud Computing in 2022 and the IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award from the IEEE CS Technical Community on Services Computing in 2023. He was a winner of the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award (Academic) in 2023. He is an AAAS Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an ACIS Fellow, an AIIA Fellow. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (Academician of the Academy of Europe).