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Andrew I-kang Li is an independent researcher in computational design based in Tokyo. His work ranges from a computational analysis of the twelfth-century Chinese building manual Yingzao fashi to a software application for creating and editing shape grammars. He is presently an adjunct professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and president of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). He was at the School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, from its founding in 1991 until 2010, and has also taught at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and worked as an architect in Boston, USA. Dr. Li was born in Montréal, Canada, and has an LMus in piano performance (McGill University, Canada), an AB in Chinese (Harvard University, USA), an MArch (Harvard), and a PhD in computational design (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA). He studied Chinese architectural history at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) as a China / Canada government exchange scholar.