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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b Class of 2020 (PDF), Royal Society of Canada, retrieved 2020-11-13
  2. ^ a b "Lin Cai", E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC, 6 May 2019, retrieved 2020-11-13
  3. ^ "UVic Researcher is Making Self-Driving Cars a Safe Reality", Douglas Magazine, 26 June 2019
  4. ^ a b "Lin Cai", Faculty & Staff, University of Victoria Electrical & Computer Engineering, retrieved 2020-11-14
  5. ^ "Lin Cai", Faculty directory, Illinois Institute of Technology, retrieved 2020-11-14
  6. ^ "Lin Cai", IEEE Xplore, retrieved 2020-11-14
  7. ^ 2020 Elected Fellows, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, retrieved 2020-11-14
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