Chinese mathematician and electrical engineer (1947–2023)
Ning Cai (Chinese: 蔡宁; 15 October 1947 - 25 May 2023)[1] was a Chinese mathematician and electrical engineer. Ning Cai got his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1988 at Bielefeld University in the group of Rudolf Ahlswede. [2] He was faculty at Xidian University. In 2015, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[3] 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.[4]
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