Ning Cai ( zh, 蔡宁; October 1947 - 25 May 2023) was a Chinese mathematician and electrical engineer. Ning Cai got his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1988 at

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization ...

in the group of

Rudolf Ahlswede Rudolf F. Ahlswede (15 September 1938 – 18 December 2010) was a German mathematician. Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the ...

. He was faculty at

Xidian University Xidian University () is a public research university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, that is administered by the Ministry of Education of China. Xidian focuses on electronics and information education and research, and has programs covering enginee ...

. In 2015, he was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) for "contributions to network coding theory and arbitrarily varying channels".

Fields of Work

A list of Cai's publications between 1984 and 1997 can be found at.
at Bielefeld University

References

Fellow Members of the IEEE 1947 births 2023 deaths {{China-mathematician-stub