Jie Cai

580 total citations
38 papers, 429 citations indexed

About

Jie Cai is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jie Cai has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 429 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Building and Construction, 13 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jie Cai's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (20 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (9 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (5 papers). Jie Cai is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (20 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (9 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (5 papers). Jie Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Jie Cai's co-authors include James E. Braun, Donghun Kim, Hao Zhang, Xing Jin, Jianghai Hu, Kartik B. Ariyur, Zhimin Jiang, David Fugate, Yingying Xiao and Qing Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy and Buildings and Building and Environment.

In The Last Decade

Jie Cai

36 papers receiving 414 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jie Cai United States	12	254	180	165	103	61	38	429
Michael Benz Switzerland	9	261 1.0×	201 1.1×	110 0.7×	69 0.7×	75 1.2×	12	461
Alessandro Fonti Italy	7	168 0.7×	228 1.3×	150 0.9×	47 0.5×	49 0.8×	12	375
Jie Cai United States	11	188 0.7×	282 1.6×	151 0.9×	59 0.6×	77 1.3×	29	393
Vahid R. Dehkordi Canada	7	233 0.9×	177 1.0×	59 0.4×	82 0.8×	69 1.1×	19	385
Cara R. Touretzky United States	10	145 0.6×	211 1.2×	390 2.4×	74 0.7×	88 1.4×	15	570
Hassan Harb Germany	9	314 1.2×	358 2.0×	137 0.8×	69 0.7×	136 2.2×	18	557
Donald Azuatalam Australia	9	166 0.7×	359 2.0×	174 1.1×	46 0.4×	89 1.5×	17	468
Dian-ce Gao Hong Kong	11	337 1.3×	195 1.1×	76 0.5×	179 1.7×	129 2.1×	14	459
Jingran Ma United States	8	392 1.5×	306 1.7×	311 1.9×	101 1.0×	129 2.1×	9	628
Iago Cupeiro Figueroa Belgium	6	478 1.9×	230 1.3×	199 1.2×	110 1.1×	173 2.8×	9	631

Countries citing papers authored by Jie Cai

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jie Cai's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jie Cai with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jie Cai more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jie Cai

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jie Cai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jie Cai. The network helps show where Jie Cai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jie Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jie Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jie Cai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jie Cai. Jie Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kim, Donghun, et al.. (2025). Seasonal performance evaluation of zero-superheat active refrigerant charge control for variable-speed heat pumps. Energy and Buildings. 351. 116663–116663.

Cai, Jie, et al.. (2024). Assessment of simulated snoring sounds with artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Medicine. 125. 100–107. 1 indexed citations

Cai, Jie, et al.. (2024). Deep Learning-Based Quantification of Adenoid Hypertrophy and Its Correlation with Apnea-Hypopnea Index in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Nature and Science of Sleep. Volume 16. 2243–2256. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Zhimin, et al.. (2023). Model-based predictive control of multi-stage air-source heat pumps integrated with phase change material-embedded ceilings. Applied Energy. 336. 120796–120796. 19 indexed citations

Jiang, Zhimin, et al.. (2022). Optimal predictive control of phase change material-based energy storage in buildings via mixed-integer convex programming. Applied Thermal Engineering. 215. 118821–118821. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Haopeng & Jie Cai. (2022). Development of an accumulator liquid-level estimator to enable zero-superheat control and active charge management in vapor-compression systems. International Journal of Refrigeration. 144. 264–274. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Zhimin, et al.. (2022). Modelling and mitigating lifetime impact of building demand responsive control of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 15(6). 771–787. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Haopeng & Jie Cai. (2021). A Gray-Box Dynamic Modeling Method for Variable Speed Direct Expansion Systems. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 2 indexed citations

Cai, Jie, et al.. (2021). A robust gray-box modeling methodology for variable-speed direct-expansion systems with limited training data. International Journal of Refrigeration. 129. 128–138. 13 indexed citations

10.

Cai, Jie, et al.. (2021). A hierarchical gray-box dynamic modeling methodology for direct-expansion cooling systems to support control stability analysis. International Journal of Refrigeration. 133. 191–200. 6 indexed citations

11.

Jiang, Zhimin, et al.. (2020). Optimized Control of Phase Change Material-Based Storage Integrated in Building Air-Distribution Systems. 4225–4230. 2 indexed citations

12.

Cai, Jie, Hao Zhang, & Xing Jin. (2018). Aging-aware predictive control of PV-battery assets in buildings. Applied Energy. 236. 478–488. 62 indexed citations

13.

Cai, Jie & James E. Braun. (2018). Assessments of variable-speed equipment for packaged rooftop units (RTUs) in the United States. Energy and Buildings. 164. 203–218. 15 indexed citations

14.

Kim, Donghun, Jie Cai, James E. Braun, & Kartik B. Ariyur. (2017). System identification for building thermal systems under the presence of unmeasured disturbances in closed loop operation: Theoretical analysis and application. Energy and Buildings. 167. 359–369. 21 indexed citations

15.

Xiao, Yingying, et al.. (2017). Distributed model predictive control via Proximal Jacobian ADMM for building control applications. 37–43. 29 indexed citations

16.

Kim, Donghun, James E. Braun, Jie Cai, & David Fugate. (2015). Development and experimental demonstration of a plug-and-play multiple RTU coordination control algorithm for small/medium commercial buildings. Energy and Buildings. 107. 279–293. 31 indexed citations

17.

Cai, Jie, et al.. (2015). Multi-agent control for centralized air conditioning systems serving multi-zone buildings. 986–993. 19 indexed citations

18.

Kim, Donghun, et al.. (2015). Dynamic programming based approaches to optimal rooftop unit coordination. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 21(6). 752–760. 3 indexed citations

19.

Kim, Donghun, et al.. (2014). Distributed Model Predictive Control for Building HVAC systems: A Case Study. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 10 indexed citations

20.

Cai, Jie & James E. Braun. (2012). EFFICIENT AND ROBUST TRAINING METHODOLOGY FOR INVERSE BUILDING MODELING. Proceedings of SimBuild. 5(1). 456–461. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact