Yang Cai

About

I am an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University’s School of Computer Science. Prior to joining McGill, I was a postdoc with Christos Papadimitriou at UC Berkeley. Before that, I finished my Ph.D. in the Theory of Computation group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT under the supervision of Costis Daskalakis. I did my undergraduate study in the EECS department at Peking University. Current students: Mingfei Zhao, Mashbat Suzuki (co-supervised with Adrian Vetta), Johannes Brustle, Paul Pereira (co-supervised with Doina Precup). Interests Theory of Computation Economics and Computation Learning Online Algorithms Logic Education PhD in Computer Science, 2013 MIT BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008 Peking University

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, 2013 MIT
• BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008 Peking University