About Me

Hanlin Cai

Here is Hanlin Cai (Lance, 蔡汉霖).

I am a first-year PhD student at the Centre for neXt Communications at the University of Cambridge, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Ozgur B. Akan, and advised by Jon Crowcroft and Kai Li.

My research is supported by the Cambridge Trust, China Scholarship Council and Wolfson College. Previously, I was very pleased to undertake summer research with Pietro Liò in the Artificial Intelligence Group.

Prior to joining Cambridge, I worked on wireless networks and cybersecurity with Zhezhuang Xu and Meng Yuan. During this period, I was honored to be selected as an outstanding undergraduate scholar at leading AI conferences, including AAAI 2024 and KDD 2024.

I am always open to academic discussions and potential collaborations. Please feel free to reach out to me at hc663 [at] cam.ac.uk (or my WeChat account is lancecai2002).

Research Interests

Edge AI System
Distributed ML
Attack, Defense, Resilience

News and Updates

July 2026：I founded the Cambridge AI for Wellbeing Society, an officially registered society at Cambridge.
Nov 2025：Excited to receive an Honorary Mention Award in the 2025 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition.
May 2025：Delighted to be awarded the Cambridge Trust Scholarship and CSC Scholarship!
June 2024：Very excited to be selected as KDD UC Scholar. See you in Spain!
April 2024：Our work BLEGuard has been accepted to MobiSys 2024 as a poster paper. See you in Japan!
Dec 2023：Very excited to be selected as AAAI UC Scholar. See you in Canada!