Ning Cai ( zh, 蔡宁; 15 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 () is a public 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 and teaching than the e ...

in the group of Rudolf Ahlswede. He was faculty at

Xidian University Xidian University () is a public university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, SASTIND, and China Electro ...

. In 2015, he was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(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

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