Dr. Zhipeng Cai received his PhD and M.S. degree in Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta, and B.S. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology. Dr. Cai is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. Prior to joining GSU, Dr. Cai  was a research faculty in the CAP group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Cai's research areas focus on algorithm design in networking and bioinformatics. His current projects include designing routing protocols and algorithms in cognitive radio network and developing computational and machine learning models in system biology.

• Editorial Board Member / Guest Editor
  Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet).
  Guest Editor (with Y. Pan), special issue for Tsinghua Science and Technology.
  Guest Editor (with G. Lin), special issue for Algorithmica. 54(4), Page 471-567.
  Guest Editor (with G. Lin), special issue for Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 16(3), 197-322, 2008.
• Program Chair
  International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications 2013 (ISBRA 2013).
  The 20th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference  (COCOON 2014).
• TPC Member
  2014- INFOCOM 2014
  2013- MASS 2013, COCOON 2013, SEDE 2013.
  2012- COCOA 2012, IPCCC 2012, 3PGCIC 2012.
  2011- IPCCC 2011, CIKM 2011.
  2010- IPCCC 2010.
  2009- ISAAC 2009, COCOA 2009, FOWANC 2009, IEEE WiNA-09.
• Local Organizing Committee
  The 13th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2007). July 16--19, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada)
• Refereed papers
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, COCOON 2007, COCOON2009.
• Member of IEEE Computer Society.