Professor of Computer Science

College of Computing and Data Science

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore 639798

Tel: +65 6790 5043

Fax: +65 6792 6559

Email: aswtcai at ntu dot edu dot sg

 

 

 

Wentong CAI is a Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) 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 Dean (Faculty) of CCDS.

 

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 19 PhD students as sole/main supervisor. 

 

Prof Cai is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of 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 and an editor of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) from 2011 to 2023.  He has been servicing as 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.  He is the recipient of the ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award in 2023 for his overall achievements in Modelling and Simulation.

 

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Best Contributed Applied Paper Award in WSC 2022 (Singapore, 11-14 Dec 2022): “A Simulation-based Evacuation Elevator Allocation Analysis for Multi-level Hospital Emergency Departments” by Boyi Su, Ahmad Reza Pourghaderi, Michael H. Lees, Kenneth B. K. Tan, Shi Yi Loo, Ivan S. Y. Chua, Joy L. J. Quah, Wentong Cai, and Marcus E. H. Ong.

 

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.