【Biography】

Wentong CAI is a Professor in theCollege of Computing and Data Science(CCDS) atNanyang Technological University(NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science fromUniversity of Exeter(UK) in 1991. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow atQueen'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.,IHPCandSIMTech) 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 theIEEEand a member ofACM. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of theACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation(TOMACS). He was an associate editor of TOMACS from 2007 to Apr 2023 and an editor of theFuture Generation Computer Systems(FGCS) from 2011 to 2023. He has been servicing as an editor of theJournal of Simulation(JOS) since 2016, and in the editorial board ofInternational 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.

【Research interests】

The Modelling and Simulation (M&S) group led by Prof Wentong Cai has been conducting impactful research in M&S over two decades. The research of the group mainly focuses on the intersection between Computer Science and M&S. The current research interests include: performance and scalability of discrete event simulation, large-scale distributed virtual environment and cloud gaming, dynamic data-driven modelling and simulation, and agent-based simulation applications (e.g., crowd and traffic simulation).

【Research related Awards】

Best Contributed Applied Paper Award in WSC 2022 (Singapore, 11-14 Dec 2022)

Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSIM PADS 2021 (Suffolk, Virginia, USA, 31 May – 2 June 2021)

Best Contributed Applied Paper Award in WSC 2020 (Orlando, Florida, USA, 13-16 Dec 2020)

【Selected Publications】

Wen Jun Tan, Philipp Andelfinger, Wentong Cai, David Eckhoff, and Alois Knoll. “Spatial Iterative Coordination for Parallel Simulation-based Optimization of Large-scale Traffic Signal Control”, to appear in Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Jinghui Zhong, Dongrui Li, Wentong Cai, Wei-Neng Chen, and Yuhui Shi. “Automatic Crowd Navigation Path Planning in Public Scenes through Multi-objective Differential Evolution”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

Htet Naing, Wentong Cai, Jinqiang YU, Tiantian wu, Liang Yu, “Physics-guided Graph Convolutional Network for Modeling Car-following Behaviors under Distributional Shift”, in Procs. of 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), 24-28 Sept 2023 in Bilbao, Spain.

Jaeyoung Kwak, Michael H. Lees, and Wentong Cai, “Characterization of Pedestrian Contact Interaction Trajectories”, to appear in Procs. of 2023 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, 3-5 July 2023.

Wen Jun Tan, Moon Gi Seok, and Wentong Cai, “Automatic Model Generation and Daya Assimilation Framework for Cyber-Physical Production Systems””, to appear in Procs. of 2023 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS 2023), Orlando, Florida, USA, 21-23 June 2023.

Moon Gi Seok, Wen Jung Tan, Wentong Cai, and Daejin Park. “Digital-Twin Consistency Checking Based on Observed Timed Events with Unobservable Transitions in Smart Manufacturing”, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol.19, No.4, pp.6208-6219, Apr 2023.

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

Htet Naing, Wentong Cai, Nan Hu, Titian Wu, and Liang Yu. “Dynamic Data-driven Microscopic Traffic Simulation Using Jointly Trained Physics-guided LSTM”, n ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), Vol.32, No.4, 2022.

Iryanto Jaya, Yusen Li, and Wentong Cai. “Improving Scalability, Sustainability and Availability via Workload Distribution in Edge-Cloud Gaming”, in Procs. of ACM Multimedia 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-14 Oct 2022.

Xiangting Hou, Linbo Luo, and Wentong cai. “Distribution-based Weights Estimation for Map Matching Algorithms”, in IEEE Systems Journal, Vol.16, No.3, pp.4256-4266, Sept 2022.

【Email】

wtcai@ntu.edu.sg