Jin Li (computer scientist)  Jin Li (; born 1971) is a computer scientist. He joined Microsoft Research in 1999, as one of the founding member of Microsoft Research Asia. He is currently a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Li was born in Shanghai, China. In 1984, he demoed computer programs to Deng Xiaoping, then the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China. This iconic event led to the quote "计算机普及要从娃娃" (Computer education should start from children). This event and quote was widely reported in China, often in the context of teaching computer programming to children, and/or developing computer industry in China. In 1987, Li matriculated at Tsinghua University at the age of 16. He got PhD in 1994. He was considered one of the youngest PhDs in China in the 20th century. Li joined Integrated Media Systems Center of University of Southern California in 1994 as an Associate Researcher. In 1996, he joined Sharp Laboratories of America. In 1999, he joined Microsoft Research Asia as one of its founding member   , and won a Microsoft Gold Star award for his contribution in founding the lab. He returned to Microsoft Research Redmond in 2001, where he served as the Partner Research Manager for the Cloud Computing and Storage group. Li made extensive contribution to Multimedia compression standard (JPEG 2000, MPEG-4, HEVC), on topics of optimized scalable coding,  visual optimization in scalable coding,  coding of object of non-rectangular shape,  ,  region-of-interest interactive image browsing,  scalable audio coding, and  bi-directional motion compensation  He was a pioneer in P2P video delivery  . His work on the Local Reconstruction Code (LRC) has shipped in Azure Storage, which has led to hundreds of millions dollars of saving to Microsoft per annum  a Best Paper Award at USENIX ATC 2012  and a Microsoft TCN Storage Technical Achievement Award. LRC has also been used in Storage Space (shipped in Windows & Windows Server) . His work on Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 is among the top 3 File Server features introduced . It has received rave press reviews  . His work to exploit the benefit of SSD for high performance storage applications has led to "FlashStore" and SkimpyStash  , the former  has been shipped in Bing/AdCenter for cloud object storage, the latter   has been incorporated into BW-Tree, which is shipping in SQL Server 2014 (Hekaton) and Azure DocumentDB.