Dr Cai Wingfield MASt/MMath, PhD Engineering and Physical SciencesSenior Research Data Scientist Contact details Emailc.wingfield@bham.ac.uk View my research portal AddressAdvanced Research ComputingInstitute for Data and AIElm HouseUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK In 2023 Cai joined the Research Software Group as a Senior Research Data Scientist, funded by the Institute for Data and AI. Qualifications PhD in mathematical foundations of computer science, University of Bath, 2013 MASt/MMath in Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2009 BSc in Mathematics, University of Warwich, 2008 Biography Cai holds an MASt/MMath in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in theoretical computer science from the University of Bath; their thesis was entitled “Graphical Foundations for Dialogue Games” and was supervised by Professors John Power and Guy McCusker, giving them an Erdős number of 3. Since then, Cai has worked as a postdoc on computational models in cognitive science and neuroimaging at the Universities of Lancaster and Cambridge. They joined the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) in 2023. Publications Recent publications Article Lakra, A, Wingfield, C, Zhang, C & Thwaites, A 2025, 'Strategies for automatic generation of information processing pathway maps', Frontiers in Neuroimaging, vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2025.1608390 View all publications in research portal