Short Bio:
Lin Cai is a Professor with the Department of Electrical
&
Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. She received her
M.A.Sc. and PhD degrees (awarded Outstanding Achievement in Graduate
Studies) in electrical and computer engineering
from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2002 and 2005,
respectively. Dr. Cai has been awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator
Supplement Grant in 2010 and 2015. She was a recipient of a Postgraduate
Scholarship
(PGS) in 2003 and a Postdoctoral
Fellowship (PDF) in 2005 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research
Council of Canada (NSERC) . She is a senior member of IEEE and a
member of ACM.
Ph.D. Co-advisors: Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
and Dr.
Jon W. Mark
Awards and Recognition:
- Dr. Lin Cai has been a recipient of the NSERC
Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award (125 awards
nationwide across all science and engineering fields), June 2015.
- Y. Luo and L. Cai, "Error Recovery with Soft Value
Combining for Wireless Cooperative Systems," IEEE WCNC'11, Cancun,
Mexico, March 2011. (received the best academic paper award)
- Dr. Lin Cai has been a recipient of the NSERC
Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award (125 awards
nationwide across all science and engineering fields), April 2010.
- L. Wang, L. Cai, X.Z. Liu, and X. Shen, "Practical Stability and
Bounds
of Heterogeneous AIMD/RED System with Time Delay", Proc. IEEE ICC'08,
May 19-23, 2008, Beijing, China. (received the IEEE ICC'08 - Advances
in Networks and Internet Symposium Best Paper Award)
- E. Shihab, L. Cai, F. Wan, A. Gulliver, and N. Tin, “Mesh
Network
for In-Home IPTV Distribution,” IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on
Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols, Vol.
22, No. 1, pp. 52-57, Jan./Feb. 2008. (
#7 of top documents
accessed, IEEE
Network, March 2008.)
- Q. He, L. Cai, X. Shen, and P.H. Ho, "Improving TCP Performance
over
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Busy Tone Assisted Scheme", EURASIP J.
Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2006, Article ID 92039,
pp. 1-11, 2006. (nominated for the EURASIP JWCN Best Paper Award)
Professional Activities:
Associate Editor for
Conference
organization committee member for
- IEEE Globecom'10, Miami,
Fl., USA, Nov./Dec. 2010. (TPC co-chair for wireless networking
symposium)
- 5th International
Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless
Networks (Qshine'08), Hongkong, China, July 2008. (publication chair)
- IEEE Globecom’07,
Nov./Dec. 2007, Washington, DC, USA. (student travel grants chair)
- W-9 Form for students
residing in US can be downloaded here
- 4th International
Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless
Networks (Qshine'07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2007. (local chair)
- 1st workshop on Wireless Networking for
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2007.
(publicity chair)
Technical program committee member for
- IEEE Infocom'11, May 2011,
Shanghai, China
- IEEE WCNC'10, April 2010, Sydney,
Australia
- IEEE Infocom'10, Mar. 2010,
San Diego, CA, USA
- IEEE Globecom'09, Dec.
2009, Hawaii, USA
- ACM QShine, Nov.
2009, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless
Network Algorithm and Theory (WiNA'09 ), Oct. 2009, Macau SAR, China
- Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc
and Sensor Networks (WWASN 2009), June 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- IEEE Pacrim'09, Aug. 2009, Victoria, BC, Canada
- IEEE Infocom 2009, April 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- IEEE Globecom 2008, Dec. 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), May
2008, Beijing, China
- IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC
2008), March 2008, Las Vegas, USA
- IEEE CCECE, May 2008, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Fifth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
(WWASN'08), June 2008, Beijing, China
- IEEE Globecom 2007, Nov. 2007, Washington DC, USA (also serve the
Student Travel Grants chair)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), June
2007, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC 2007), August 12-16, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- IEEE VTC'07 Fall, Oct. 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 4th International Conference on Quality of Service in
Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (Qshine'07), Vancouver, BC,
Canada, August 2007 (also serve the local chair)
- The Fourth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
(WWASN'07), June 25, 2007, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 10th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT'07), June 6 -
June 8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Ad hoc and Sensor Networks of the IEEE 21st International
Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, May
2007, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
- IEEE Globecom'06, Nov./Dec. 2006, San Francisco, California, USA
- International Symposium on Broadband Access
Technologies in Metropolitan Area Networks, Oct. 2006, Niagara fall,
Ontario, Canada
- Fifteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN'06), Oct. 2006, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and
Information Technology (ISSPIT'06), Vancouver, Canada
- the First International Conference on Communications and
Networking in China (ChinaCOM'06), Beijing, China
- the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Networks,
July 2006, San Jose, California, USA; to be held in conjunction with
The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous
Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006)
- the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and
Networking (WMSN'06), April 2006, Phoenix, USA
- IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control
(ICNSC'06), April 2006, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl., USA
- the third International Conference on Quality of Service in
Heterogeneous
Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'06), Aug. 2006, Waterloo, Canada
- International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC'06), July 3-6, 2006, Vancouver, Canada
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