About Yi Cai’s work
Based at South China University of Technology, Yi Cai held a Croucher Visitorship at the Education University of Hong Kong from September 2016 to March 2017.
Biography
Cai Yi received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Sichuan University in 2003 and 2005, and his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong Chinese in 2009, followed by postdoctoral research at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include artificial intelligence and big data, natural language processing, data mining, recommendation systems, information retrieval and intelligent search engines, dialogue systems, knowledge graphs, and multimodality. Cai has been teaching at South China University of Technology since 2011 and was promoted to Professor in 2014. He is currently an outstanding member of the China Computer Federation, a member of the Chinese Information Technology Committee, a member of the Database Committee, a member of the Language and Knowledge Computing Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, a member of the Social Media Computing Committee, the Deputy Director of the Guangdong Big Data Committee, the Deputy Director of the Digital Economy Committee, and the Director of the Guangdong Database Expert Committee.