女，博士，讲师，硕士生导师，于2024年4月入职厦门理工学院计算机与信息工程学院，福建省医疗数据挖掘与应用工程技术研究中心成员。

研究兴趣：图神经网络、图解释学习、生物信息计算、复杂网络动力学

电子邮箱：zhongqicai@xmut.edu.cn

教育经历

2015.09 - 2019.07，厦门大学，自动化专业，工学学士

2019.09 - 2024.01，英国南安普顿大学，计算机科学专业，哲学博士

工作经历

2024.04-至今 厦门理工学院，计算机与信息工程学院，讲师

主要论文

[1] Auricchio G, Lin M, Zhou L, Guo Z*, Cai Z*. Scalable Knothe--Rosenblatt-like Heuristic Transportation Plans for Imaging Problems[C]//The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2026.

[2] Cai Z*, Gerding E, Brede M. Competitive influence maximization in voter dynamics: The role of timing and network heterogeneity[J]. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2025, 144: 1-24.

[3] Zheng L, Dai B, Yang F, Xia J, Lin K*, Cai Z*. MFHNN-DDI: Molecular fragment-based hypergraph neural networks for drug–drug interaction prediction[J]. Neurocomputing, 2025， 661：1-18.

[4] Guo Z, Yu H, Norman T, Gerding E, Auricchio G, Cai Z*. A Cautious Multi-Advisor Sequential Decision-Making Strategy without Ground Truth for Maximizing the Profits[J]. Expert Systems with Applications, 2025, 286: 1-26.

[5] Cai Z*, Gerding E, Brede M. Enhanced network inference from sparse incomplete time series through automatically adapted $$ L_1 $$ regularization[J]. Applied Network Science, 2024, 9(1): 1-22.

[6] Cai Z*, Gerding E, Brede M. Accelerating convergence of inference in the inverse Ising problem[J]. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023, 632: 129348.

[7] Cai Z*, Gerding E, Brede M. Control meets inference: Using network control to uncover the behaviour of opponents[J]. Entropy, 2022, 24(5): 640.

[8] Cai Z*, Gerding E, Brede M. Accelerating opponent strategy inference for voting dynamics on complex networks[C]//Complex Networks & Their Applications X: Volume 1, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021 10. Springer International Publishing, 2022: 844-856.

[9] Cai Z*, Brede M, Gerding E. Influence maximization for dynamic allocation in voter dynamics[C]//Complex Networks & Their Applications IX: Volume 1, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020. Springer International Publishing, 2021: 382-394.

近年来承担的主要科研项目：

1. 厦门理工高层次人才项目, 基于异质平均场和异构图神经网络的多重影响力传播优化研究/YKJ24021R，研究经费：15万元，项目负责人。

2. 厦门市自然科学基金，面向癌症基因模块因果解析的多组学解耦可解释学习方法研究/3502Z202571066，研究经费：5万元，项目负责人。