Dr. Wei Cai is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Systems at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA. He is now leading the Decentralized Computing Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia (2016), an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University (2011), and a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Xiamen University (2008). 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 (Taiwan), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the National Institute of Informatics (Japan). Dr. Cai has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has received 6 Best Paper Awards. His research focuses on decentralized computing, with emphasis on mechanism design, social computing, multimedia, and applications. He serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), and previously for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). Dr. Cai 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.

University of British Columbia

Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD '16, University of British Columbia

Seoul National University

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MS '11, Seoul National University

Xiamen University

Software Engineering BE '08, Xiamen University

Assistant Professor at University of Washington

Human-Computer Interaction

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Computer Networks And Communications

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition

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Sociology And Political Science

Biomedical Engineering

Developmental And Educational Psychology

Computer Graphics And Computer-Aided Design

Marketing

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