Professor of Computer
Science
School of Computer
Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological
University
Tel: +65 6790 5043
Fax: +65 6792 6559
Email: aswtcai at ntu dot edu dot sg
Wentong CAI is a
Professor in the School of Compute
Science and Engineering (SCSE) at Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from University of Exeter (UK) in 1991. He
was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Queen's
University (Canada) before joining NTU
as a Faculty Member in 1993. He was the
Head of Computer Science Division from 2003 to 2009 and the Director of the
Parallel and Distributed Computing Centre (PDCC) from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the Associate Chair (Faculty)
of SCSE.
Prof Cai’s expertise is mainly in the areas of Modelling
and Simulation (particularly, modelling and simulation of large-scale complex
systems, and system support for parallel and distributed simulation and
distributed virtual environments). He
has published extensively in these areas and has received a number of best
paper awards at the international conferences for his research (e.g., WSC’22, SIGSIM PADS’21, WSC’20, DS-RT’18, SIGSIM PADS’18, SIGSIM PADS’17, DS-RT’09, PADS’06, DS-RT’04, and ESS’03). His recent research also involves using
Agent-based Modelling techniques to understand the effect of individual
behaviour on system-level dynamics and to develop scalable simulation
applications (e.g., traffic and crowd simulation).
He has been actively collaborating with Singapore
industries (e.g., MPA, STEE, EADS, SAP, D-SIMLAB, and SGH) and research institutes (e.g., IHPC and SIMTech)
on simulation projects. Over his career,
he has been successful in attracting competitive research funding from various
funding agencies (e.g., MOE, A*STAR, NRF, and DSTA). He has graduated 11 research Master and 18
PhD students as sole/main supervisor.
Prof Cai is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modelling
and Computer Simulation (TOMACS).
He was an associate editor of TOMACS from 2007 to Apr 2023. He is also an editor of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) since 2011, an editor of the Journal
of Simulation (JOS) since 2016, and in the editorial board of International Journal
of Modelling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing (IJMSSC) since
2020. He has chaired a number of
international conferences in the areas of Modelling and Simulation, and
Parallel and Distributed Computing. Most
recent ones include: DS-RT’23, ICDCS’20, AsiaSIM’19, SIGSIM PADS’17, DS-RT’15, CloudCom’14, ICPADS’12,
and MACOTS’11.
Best Paper Award in ACM
SIGSIM PADS 2021 (Suffolk, Virginia, USA, 31 May – 2 June 2021): “Data-driven
Microscopic Traffic Modelling and Simulation Using Dynamic LSTM” by Htet Naing,
Wentong Cai, Nan Hu, Tiantian Wu, and Liang Yu.
Best Contributed Applied Paper Award in WSC 2020 (Orlando, Florida, USA, 13-16 Dec 2020):
“Multi-thread State Update Schemes for Microscopic Traffic Simulation” by Wen
Jun Tan, Philipp Andelfinger, Yadong Xu, Wentong Cai,
Alois Knoll, and David Eckhoff.
Best Paper Award in
IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2018 (Madrid, Spain,
15-17 Oct 2018): “Exploring
Execution Schemes for Agent-based Traffic Simulation on Heterogeneous Hardware”
by Jiajian Xiao, Philipp Andelfinger, David Eckhoff, Wentong Cai, and Alois
Knoll.
Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSIM 2018 (Rome, 23-25 May 2018): “Fast Forwarding
Agent States to Accelerate Microscopic Traffic Simulation”, by Philipp
Andelfinger, Yadong Xu, Wentong Cai, David Eckhoff,
and Alois Knoll.
Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSIM 2017 (Singapore, 24-26 May 2017): “Efficient
Parallel Simulation over Social Contact Network with Skewed Degree Distribution”,
by Yulin Wu, Xiangting Hou, Wen
June Tan, Zengxiang Li, and Wentong Cai.