Dr. Lin Cai Lab Leader

Lin Cai received her M.A.Sc. and Ph. D. degrees (awarded Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, she has been with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria, and she is currently a Professor. She is an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow, an Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) Fellow, and an IEEE Fellow. In 2020, she was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College, and she was elected as an RSC Fellow in 2024. She was also elected as a 2020 “Star in Computer Networking and Communications” by N2Women. Her research interests span several areas in communications and networking, with a focus on network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic and the Internet of Things. She was a recipient of the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Grants in 2010 and 2015, respectively, and the Best Paper Awards of IEEE ICC 2008 and IEEE WCNC 2011. She has co-founded and chaired the IEEE Victoria Section Vehicular Technology and Communications Joint Societies Chapter. She has been elected to serve the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Board of Governors, 2019 – 2024, and served its VP Mobile Radio, 2023. She served the voting Board Member of IEEE Women in Engineering, 2022 – 2023. She has served as an Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEiC) for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD) and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, International Journal of Sensor Networks, and Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), and as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE VTS Society and the IEEE ComSoc Society. She has served as a TPC co-chair for IEEE VTC2020-Fall, and a TPC symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom’10 and Globecom’13. She is a registered professional engineer in British Columbia, Canada.

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Post Doctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Students

Pooria Seyed Eftetahi (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. He was the recipient of the Graduate Student Fellowship Award from the University of Victoria in 2021 and 2022. His research interests include satellite communication, wireless networks, resource optimization, and machine learning applications in communication systems.

Visiting Scholars