Prof. X.Q. Cai of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), in recognition of his outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence as applied to industrial and systems engineering.

Professor Cai is Associate Vice President and Presidential Chair Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.  His research is mainly in the areas of industrial and systems engineering, logistics and supply chain management, and intelligent scheduling and applications. He has published over 300 papers in academic journals, books, and conferences, including more than 100 papers in leading journals, such as Operations Research, Management Science, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Naval Research Logistics, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions, Transportation Science, and Transportation Research. He was the chair/co-chair for several international conferences, and a member of the organizing committee/program committee/advisory committee for numerous international conferences. He has been an editor/associate editor/editorial board member of several academic journals. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Scientist award (overseas category) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the IEOM Award of Outstanding Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain. He is an Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, and a Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers.  He is also Vice Director of the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, and Director of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory for IoT Intelligent Systems and Wireless Network Technologies. 

The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association is an academic, non-profit and non-governmental organization, with over 500 academicians from world-class universities such as Stanford University, Princeton University, MIT, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Melbourne, Sydney University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore National University, Peking University, Tsinghua university, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as leading high-tech firms in AI related fields such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Huawei, and JD.com. AAIA fellows include academicians (such as member of US National Academy of Sciences, member of US National Academy of Engineering, member of the Academia Europea, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, member of Canadian Academy of Engineering, member of Royal Academy of Engineering, member of Singapore Academy of Engineering, etc.), IEEE Fellows, ACM Fellows, AAAI Fellows, IAPR Fellows, etc. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association aims to bring together scientists and entrepreneurs to build a broad AI industry, including AI Ocean, AI Transportation, AI Computing, AI Communication, AI Robot, AI Education, AI Agriculture, AI Finance, AI Medicine, AI Energy, and other AI related fields.