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 Ozgur B. Akan, and advised by Jon Crowcroft and Kai Li.

My research is supported by the Cambridge Trust Scholarship and China Scholarship Council. 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 under the guidance of Zhezhuang Xu and 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

• Edge LLMs
• LLM Networking
• Attack, Defense, Reslience

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!