Kai Li

11.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Kai Li is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Li has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 47 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kai Li's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (46 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (36 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (22 papers). Kai Li is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (46 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (36 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (22 papers). Kai Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Norway. Kai Li's co-authors include Christian Bienia, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Paul Hudak, James S. Plank, Edward W. Felten, Pei Cao, Anna R. Karlin, Micah Beck and Liviu Iftode and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Kai Li

98 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

The PARSEC benchmark suite 1989 2026 2001 2013 2008 1989 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The PARSEC benchmark suite
    2008 2.7k citations Christian Bienia, Kai Li et al. profile →
  2. Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems
    1989 783 citations Kai Li et al. profile →
  3. Benchmarking modern multiprocessors
    2011 762 citations Kai Li, Christian Bienia European Journal of Cancer Care profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Li United States 34 5.9k 5.0k 1.6k 1.5k 749 101 7.9k
John K. Ousterhout United States 39 8.1k 1.4× 4.0k 0.8× 2.7k 1.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.9× 109 10.8k
David R. Cheriton United States 43 6.1k 1.0× 2.0k 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 857 0.6× 943 1.3× 156 7.0k
Norman P. Jouppi United States 67 10.2k 1.7× 12.1k 2.4× 1.6k 1.0× 8.0k 5.4× 1.5k 2.0× 191 17.0k
Larry Rudolph United States 35 3.3k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 758 0.5× 489 0.3× 520 0.7× 138 4.2k
Wu-chun Feng United States 37 4.0k 0.7× 2.9k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 936 0.6× 750 1.0× 300 5.6k
Andrew A. Chien United States 37 4.6k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 991 0.7× 662 0.9× 248 5.8k
Krste Asanović United States 52 6.0k 1.0× 6.6k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 3.5k 2.3× 2.0k 2.7× 222 10.5k
Saman Amarasinghe United States 49 6.5k 1.1× 7.9k 1.6× 1.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 2.3k 3.0× 213 10.8k
Mahmut Kandemir United States 54 9.8k 1.7× 9.9k 2.0× 2.8k 1.7× 5.0k 3.4× 905 1.2× 782 14.0k
Kunle Olukotun United States 50 6.9k 1.2× 7.2k 1.4× 988 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 2.0× 225 9.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Li

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kai Li. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kai Li. The network helps show where Kai Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Li based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Li. Kai Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yizhou, Ting Shen, Jia‐Hui Xin, et al.. (2025). Bamboo-inspired self-descaling tubular evaporators with a Janus-confined water layer for rapid and durable hypersaline brine desalination. Chemical Engineering Journal. 522. 167845–167845.
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Iyer, Anand, et al.. (2024). Apparate: Rethinking Early Exits to Tame Latency-Throughput Tensions in ML Serving. 607–623. 1 indexed citations
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Popovych, Sergiy, Thomas Macrina, Nico Kemnitz, et al.. (2024). Petascale pipeline for precise alignment of images from serial section electron microscopy. Nature Communications. 15(1). 289–289. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Kai, et al.. (2022). Exploring Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Assisted Federated Learning for Online Resource Allocation in Privacy-Preserving EdgeIoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(21). 21099–21110. 59 indexed citations
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Zhou, Ying, et al.. (2022). An Inspection Mode Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Photovoltaic System. 1157–1162. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuqiu & Kai Li. (2021). The Relationship between Rating Inconsistency and Review Helpfulness: The Moderating Effect of Review Length. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Dumitrascu, Bianca, et al.. (2020). Sparse multi-output Gaussian processes for online medical time series prediction. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 20(1). 152–152. 35 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yue, Fred Douglis, Philip Shilane, et al.. (2016). Erasing Belady's limitations: in search of flash cache offline optimality. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 379–392. 15 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qian, Aaron K. Wong, Arjun Krishnan, et al.. (2015). Targeted exploration and analysis of large cross-platform human transcriptomic compendia. Nature Methods. 12(3). 211–214. 110 indexed citations
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Li, Kai & Christian Bienia. (2011). Benchmarking modern multiprocessors. European Journal of Cancer Care. 31(5). e13635–e13635. 762 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dong, Wei, et al.. (2011). Tradeoffs in scalable data routing for deduplication clusters. File and Storage Technologies. 2–2. 102 indexed citations
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Josephson, William, Lars Ailo Bongo, David Flynn, & Kai Li. (2010). DFS: a file system for virtualized flash storage. File and Storage Technologies. 35(2). 37–47. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhe, William Josephson, Qin Lv, Moses Charikar, & Kai Li. (2007). Filtering Image Spam with Near-Duplicate Detection.. 74 indexed citations
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Hibbs, Matthew, et al.. (2005). Visualization methods for statistical analysis of microarray clusters. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 115–115. 44 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuqun, et al.. (2000). Trading capacity for performance in a disk array. Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 17–17. 66 indexed citations
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Blumrich, Matthias A., Yuqun Chen, Douglas W. Clark, et al.. (1998). Design choices in the SHRIMP system: an empirical study. 26(3). 330–341. 27 indexed citations
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Plank, James S., et al.. (1995). Libckpt: transparent checkpointing under Unix. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 18–18. 407 indexed citations
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Cao, Pei, Edward W. Felten, & Kai Li. (1994). Application-controlled file caching policies. 11–11. 77 indexed citations
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Li, Kai & Jeffrey F. Naughton. (1988). Multiprocessor main memory transaction processing. 177–187. 30 indexed citations

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