Lin Cai

Lin Cai is a Chinese-Canadian telecommunications engineer known for her work on topology control in wireless networks^[1][2] and in the applications of wireless communications to self-driving cars.^[3] She was educated at the University of Waterloo and is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Victoria.^[4]

Cai should be distinguished from a younger wireless networking engineer, also an alumna of the University of Waterloo named Lin Cai, who is a member of the faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The younger Cai publishes as "Lin X. Cai", and has coauthored research with Lin Cai.^[5]

Education and career

Cai has a bachelor's degree from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology.^[4] She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 2005, and in the same year joined the University of Victoria faculty.^[6]

Recognition

Cai became an E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellow of the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in 2019.^[2] She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2020, affiliated with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, "for contributions to topology control of wireless networks".^[7] She was elected to the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020,^[1] and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.^[8]