Hello there! I am Rui Cai(Luis)

About Me

I’m a first year Ph.D student at Computer Science Department, University of California, Davis. I received my B.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence at College of Artificial Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University. The pronunciation of my name is “Ray Tsai”(You can call me Yanson or Luis). My research interest includes multimodal machine learning and large language models.

Email : ruicai [at] ucdavis [dot] edu

I had a wonderful RA intern at HKUST(GZ), advised by [Prof. Hui Xiong](https://www.hkust-gz.edu.cn/zh/people/hui-xiong/) and [Dr. Chao Wang](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=j08V64UAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate). I was very fortunate to be advised by [Prof. Xiangliang Zhang](https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/xiangliang-zhang/) and [Dr. Shichao Pei](https://scpei.github.io/) of MINE Lab from [College of Engineering](https://engineering.nd.edu/), University of Notre Dame. I had a one-semester visit in Columbia University and luckily advised by [Prof.James Anderson](http://www.columbia.edu/~ja3451/) and gained a lot form his Convex Optimization course. I spent my wonderful sophomore year advised by [Prof. Pengju Ren](https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/pengjuren) from [College of Artificial Intelligence](https://iair.xjtu.edu.cn/), Xi'an Jiaotong University. I was enrolled in Youth Gifted Program of Xi'an Jiaotong University at 2018, and graduated at 2020.

Publication

Paper Pipeline

Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

Authors: Rui Cai, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang

In the Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data

Paper / Code

Paper Pipeline

Masked Face Dataset Generation and Masked Face Recognition [project paper]

Authors: Rui Cai

Paper / Code

Education

  • Ph.D student in Computer Science, University of California, Davis. 2024 Fall - Now
  • B.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2020 Fall-2024 Spring, advised by Prof. Pengju Ren and Prof. Yuehu Liu from College of Artificial Intelligence
  • Visiting Student in Columbia College, Columbia University, 2022 Fall, advised by Prof.James Anderson
  • The special class of Young Gifted Program, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2018 Fall-2020 Spring

Experience

Invited as a reviewer for KDD2024, IJCAI2024.

2024.9-NOW

PhD in Computer Science at UCDavis, co-advised by Prof. Zhe Zhao and Prof. Muhao Chen.

2024.1-2024.8

Research assistant at HKUST(GZ), supervised and collaborated with Prof. Hui Xiong and Dr. Chao Wang.

2023.4-2024.4

Research assistant in MINE Lab at College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, supervised and collaborated with Prof. Xiangliang Zhang and Dr. Shichao Pei.

2023.1-2023.4

Autopilot Algorithm Internship in Plus.ai, Suzhou base, focusing on noisy sample detection, advised by Dr.Dixiao Cui and Hong Zhong.