About Me

Here is Hanlin Cai (Lance, 蔡汉霖).

I am a first-year PhD student in the Internet of Everything Group at the University of Cambridge, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Ozgur Akan, and advised by Prof. Jon Crowcroft and Dr. Kai Li. My research is supported by the Cambridge Trust Scholarship and China CSC Scholarship. Previously, I had the privilege of conducting summer research with Prof. Pietro Liò in the Artificial Intelligence Group.

Prior to joining Cambridge, I worked on wireless networks and cybersecurity under the guidance of Prof. Zhezhuang Xu and Dr. Meng Yuan. Additionally, I was honored to be selected as an outstanding undergraduate scholar at leading AI conferences, including AAAI 2024 and SIGKDD 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

Research Interests

• Internet of Everything
• Internet of Agents
• Federated LLMs
• Attack and Defense for LLMs
• Graph Representation

News and Updates

• Nov 2025：Excited to receive an Honorary Mention Award in the 2025 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition!
• May 2025：Delighted to be selected as a winner of the 2025 Cambridge Trust 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!
• March 2024：Happy to receive a MPhil offer from Department of Engineering at Cambridge!
• Dec 2023：Very excited to be selected as AAAI UC Scholar. See you in Canada!