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Wei Cai

He/him/his
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Systems
Phone Number
Campus Mailbox
358426

About

Degrees

Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
2016
M.Sc.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University
2011
B.Eng.
Software Engineering
Xiamen University
2008

Dr. Cai has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has received six Best Paper Awards. His research focuses on decentralized computing, with emphasis on mechanism design, social computing, multimedia, and applications. He was named the World's Top 2% Scientist Single Year 2022 and 2023 by Stanford/Elsevier Scientist Ranking.

Dr. Cai serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), and previously for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). He is a Steering Committee member for ACM NOSSDAV, where he served as TPC co-chair in 2023, and has been an Area Chair for ACM MM since 2023. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Prior to joining UW, Dr. Cai was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He has also conducted research visits at Academia Sinica (Taipei), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo). 

Dr. Cai is now leading the Decentralized Computing Laboratory. Please visit the lab site for more research updates at https://sites.uw.edu/weicaics