2026 Jin-Yi Cai: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	51	5427	5274	2475	2390	240	8085

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
2001 - ACM Fellow For significant contributions to computational complexity theory, and for service to the international computer science research community.
1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jin-Yi Cai is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and mathematics, with a significant focus on theoretical and computational aspects.

The main fields of study for Jin-Yi Cai include:

Computer Science
Mathematics

Their work further specializes in several subfields, such as:

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Artificial Intelligence
Geometry and Topology
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

The primary research topics covered by their publications include:

Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
Advanced Graph Theory Research
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Graph theory and applications
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation

Jin-Yi Cai has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators, including:

Austen Z. Fan
Artem Govorov
Zhiguo Fu
Shuai Shao
Tianyu Liu

Their scholarly output has been published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
Theory of Computing Systems
Theoretical Computer Science
ACM Transactions on Computation Theory

Selected recent papers by Jin-Yi Cai include:

"Shor's algorithm does not factor large integers in the presence of noise," 2024, Science China Information Sciences
"On a Theorem of Lovász that hom(⋅, H) Determines the Isomorphism Type of H," 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
"FKT is Not Universal - A Planar Holant Dichotomy for Symmetric Constraints," 2021, Theory of Computing Systems
"Beyond #CSP: A dichotomy for counting weighted Eulerian orientations with ARS," 2020, Information and Computation
"Approximability of the Eight-Vertex Model," 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Jin-Yi Cai has received several awards and honors, including:

Member of Academia Europaea (2017)
ACM Fellow (2001) for significant contributions to computational complexity theory and service to the international computer science research community
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1998)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1994)

Best Publications

An optimal lower bound on the number of variables for graph identification

Jin Yi Cai;Martin Fürer;Neil Immerman

794
Citations
X-Diff: an effective change detection algorithm for XML documents

Y. Wang;D.J. DeWitt;J.-Y. Cai

627
Citations
The Boolean hierarchy I: structural properties

Jin-Yi Cai;Thomas Gundermann;Juris Hartmanis;Lane A. Hemachandra

264
Citations
Holographic algorithms: From art to science

Jin-Yi Cai;Pinyan Lu

261
Citations
With probability one, a random oracle separates PSPACE from the polynomial-time hierarchy

J Y Cai

219
Citations
On the power of parity polynomial time

Jin-yi Cai;Lane A. Hemachandra

188
Citations
Circuit minimization problem

Valentine Kabanets;Jin-Yi Cai

186
Citations
The Boolean hierarchy II: applications

J.-Y. Cai;T. Gundermann;G. Wechsung;J. Hartmanis

148
Citations
On differentially private frequent itemset mining

Chen Zeng;Jeffrey F. Naughton;Jin-Yi Cai

148
Citations
An improved worst-case to average-case connection for lattice problems

Jin-Yi Cai;A.P. Nerurkar

131
Citations
Graph Homomorphisms with Complex Values: A Dichotomy Theorem

Jin-Yi Cai;Xi Chen;Pinyan Lu

131
Citations
Holant problems and counting CSP

Jin-Yi Cai;Pinyan Lu;Mingji Xia

125
Citations
The cyclic coloring problem and estimation of spare hessian matrices

Thomas F Coleman;Jin Yi Cai

120
Citations
Approximating the SVP to within a factor (1-1/dim/sup /spl epsiv//) is NP-hard under randomized conditions

Jin-Yi Cai;A. Nerurkar

113
Citations
The Boolean Hierarchy: Hardware over NP

Jin-yi Cai;Lane A. Hemachandra

103
Citations
Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights

Jin-Yi Cai;Xi Chen

100
Citations
S^p _2 \subseteq ZPP^{NP}

J. Cai

98
Citations
On the Theory of Matchgate Computations

Jin-Yi Cai;Vinay Choudhary;Pinyan Lu

98
Citations
S2p⊆ZPPNP

Jin-Yi Cai

97
Citations
Approximating the SVP to within a Factor (1+1/dimε) Is NP-Hard under Randomized Reductions

Jin-Yi Cai;Ajay Nerurkar

90
Citations
On games of incomplete information

Jin-yi Cai;Anne Condon;Richard J. Lipton

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pinyan Lu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Xi Chen Columbia University

Richard J. Lipton Georgia Institute of Technology

Mitsunori Ogihara University of Miami

Lane A. Hemaspaandra University of Rochester

Osamu Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology

Anne Condon University of British Columbia

Juris Hartmanis Cornell University

Alan L. Selman University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Jeffrey F. Naughton University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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