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Ying Cai

Position
  • Associate Professor
Ying Cai received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida in 2002. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University in 2003 and is now an associate professor there. His current research interests include database management, security, and privacy.

Contact

201 Atanasoff
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Area of Expertise

  • Database Management
  • Security and Privacy

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 2002

Research Opportunity: Dr. Cai is recruiting graduate students for a research project on authentication data structures for rank-aware queries, funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Applicants should have a strong background in programming and mathematics, with expertise in linear algebra and cryptography. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates from minority backgrounds are preferred. To apply, please email your resume to yingcai@iastate.edu with the subject line "AFRL Project".

Recent Publications

  • Masoud Nosrati, Ying Cai. Verifying the Correctness of Analytic Query Results, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, accepted, October, 2020.
  • Guolei Yang, Ying Cai, Chandan R. Reddy. Recurrent Spatio-Temporal Point Process for Check-in Time PredictionThe 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’18), accepted as a full paper. (26%, 34  out of 130)
  • Guolei Yang, Ying Cai, Chandan R. Reddy. Check-in Time Prediction using Recurrent-Censored Regressionthe 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-2018), accepted as a full paper. (20%, 710  out of 3470)

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