Prof. Cai Yi, is the Dean of Software Engineering in SCUT, the Director of The China Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Big Data and Robotic Intelligence. He had received his PhD degree in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and work as postdoctoral fellow in City University of Hong Kong. Moreover, he is CCF Distinguish member, member of Technical Committee on Databases, member of the Technical Committee on NLP Technology, member of the Technical Committee on Social Media Processing of CIPS. Prof. Cai has published more than 170 high quality papers in top journals and conferences such as IEEE TKDE, TMM, TAFFAC, IEEE/ACM TASLP, AAAI, ACL, ACM MM, including ESI highly cited papers. Prof. Cai also had published 2 academic monographs, hosted 3national projects and 7 provincial projects, and acts as the Chairman and Program Committee members of more than 20 prestigious international academic conferences.
E-mail:ycai@scut.edu.cn
Research Direction: Artificial intelligence, big data, natural language processing, data mining, recommendation systems, information retrieval and intelligent search engines, dialogue systems, knowledge graphs, and multimodal analysis, etc.
Representative Papers
1.Li Yuan, Yi Cai, Jingyun Xu, Qing Li, Tao Wang: A Fine-Grained Network for Joint Multimodal Entity-Relation Extraction. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 37(1): 1-14 (2025).
2.Qi Peng, Yi Cai, Jiankun Liu, Quan Zou, Xing Chen, Zheng Zhong, Zefeng Wang, Jiayuan Xie, Qing Li: Integration of Multi-Source Medical Data for Medical Diagnosis Question Answering. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 44(3): 1373-1385 (2025).
3.Liuwen Cao, Hongkui He, Hailin Huang, Jiexin Wang, Yi Cai: Rethinking-based Code Summarization with Chain of Comments. COLING 2025: 3043-3056.
4.Jingyun Xu, Jiayuan Xie, Yi Cai, Zehang Lin, Ho-fung Leung, Qing Li, Tat-Seng Chua: Context-Aware Dynamic Word Embeddings for Aspect Term Extraction. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 15(1): 144-156 (2024).
5.Yushi Zeng, Guohua Wang, Haopeng Ren, Yi Cai, Ho-fung Leung, Qing Li, Qingbao Huang: A Knowledge-Enhanced and Topic-Guided Domain Adaptation Model for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 15(2): 709-721 (2024).
