Research Areas:Information Retrieval, Keyword Search and Ranking Algorithm, Geosocial Data Mining

Publications(in most recent 3 years)

1. Zhi Cai, Gongyu Sun, Xing Su, Tong Li, Limin Guo, Zhiming Ding: Visual Analysis of Land Use Characteristics Around Urban Rail Transit Stations. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems (T.ITS) (2020)

2. Zhi Cai, Xuerui Cui, Xing Su, Limin Guo, Zhining Liu, Zhiming Ding: Continuous road network based Skyline query for moving objects. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems (T.ITS) (2020)

3. Zhi Cai, George Kalamatianos, Georgios John Fakas, Nikos Mamoulis, Dimitris Papadias: Diversified Keyword search on spatial RDF data. VLDB Journal (2020)

4. Zhi Cai, Xuerui Cui, Xing Su, Limin Guo, Zhiming Ding: A Novel Vector Based Dynamic Path Planning Method in Urban Road Network. IEEE-Access 8: 9046-9060 (2019)

5. Zhi Cai, Tong Li, Xing Su, Limin Guo, Zhiming Ding: Research on Analysis Method of Characteristics Generation of Urban Rail Transit. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems (T.ITS) Early Access: 1-13 (2019)

6. Zhi Cai, Fujie Ren, Juncheng Chen, Zhiming Ding: Vector-Based Trajectory Storage and Query for Intelligent Transport System. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems (T.ITS) 19(5): 1508-1519 (2018)

7. Zhi Cai, Fujie Ren, Yuanying Chi, Xibin Jia, Lijuan Duan, Zhiming Ding: Multi-vehicles dynamic navigating method for large-scale event crowd evacuations. GeoInformatica 22(2): 435-462 (2018)

   Personal Statement

   Cai Zhi is an Associate Professor in Big Data and Artificial Intelligent Group, College of Computer Science, Faculty of Information Technology in Beijing University of Technology.

   He obtained his M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from Health and Bio-informatics Group, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Department of Computing and Math, Manchester Metropolitan University (supervisor is Prof. Georgios Fakas) in 2011. Later he worked as a Post-doctor at the same university. He also payed a short visit to the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong in 2014 (supervisor is Prof. Nikos Mamoulis).