Ning Cai (engineer)

This article is about the mathematician. For the magician, see Ning Cai (magician).

Ning Cai (Chinese: 蔡宁; 15 October 1947 - 25 May 2023)^[1] was a Chinese mathematician and electrical engineer. Ning Cai got his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1988 at Bielefeld University in the group of Rudolf Ahlswede. ^[2] He was faculty at Xidian University. In 2015, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)^[3] for "contributions to network coding theory and arbitrarily varying channels".

Ning Cai
蔡宁
Born	(1947-10-15)October 15, 1947
Died	May 25, 2023(2023-05-25) (aged 75) Bielefeld, Germany
Nationality	Chinese
Known for	Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2015)
Awards	IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (2005) IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics and electrical engineering

Fields of Work

A list of Cai's publications between 1984 and 1997 can be found at.^[4]