Dr Cai Wingfield MASt/MMath, PhD

Dr Cai Wingfield

Engineering and Physical Sciences
Senior Research Data Scientist

Contact details

Address
Advanced Research Computing
Institute for Data and AI
Elm House
University 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

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