Ning Cai

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Ning Cai is a scholar working on Finance, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Cai has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Finance, 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ning Cai's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (22 papers), Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (14 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (8 papers). Ning Cai is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (22 papers), Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (14 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (8 papers). Ning Cai collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ning Cai's co-authors include Raymond W. Yeung, Rudolf Ahlswede, Shuo Li, Steven Kou, Nan Chen, Terence Chan, Lihua Song, Chenxu Li, Xuewei Yang and Bin Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

In The Last Decade

Ning Cai

46 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Network information flow 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Network information flow
    2000 5.4k citations Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ning Cai Hong Kong 18 5.5k 4.0k 558 444 188 47 6.4k
Kavita Ramanan United States 21 1.6k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 228 0.4× 146 0.3× 101 0.5× 70 2.5k
Minyi Huang Canada 32 1.9k 0.4× 718 0.2× 1.9k 3.4× 384 0.9× 171 0.9× 124 5.0k
Daniel V. Wilson United States 11 5.0k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 361 0.6× 717 1.6× 115 0.6× 12 6.6k
Jorma Virtamo Finland 24 1.6k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 244 0.4× 80 0.2× 71 0.4× 119 2.5k
W.E. Leland United States 12 4.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 289 0.5× 630 1.4× 121 0.6× 24 5.7k
O.L.V. Costa Brazil 33 1.1k 0.2× 214 0.1× 419 0.8× 618 1.4× 765 4.1× 190 4.7k
H. S. Witsenhausen United States 23 889 0.2× 678 0.2× 244 0.4× 677 1.5× 460 2.4× 64 3.0k
V. Ramaswami United States 29 1.2k 0.2× 712 0.2× 188 0.3× 109 0.2× 539 2.9× 64 3.8k
Charalambos D. Charalambous Cyprus 21 541 0.1× 533 0.1× 144 0.3× 270 0.6× 72 0.4× 211 1.4k
Gagan L. Choudhury United States 26 984 0.2× 858 0.2× 99 0.2× 74 0.2× 107 0.6× 69 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ning Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ning Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ning Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ning 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 Ning Cai. Ning Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2025). Can digital finance promote the digital technology innovation of enterprises?. Finance research letters. 86. 108555–108555. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jianxin, et al.. (2024). The Establishment of Dynamic Microexpression Recognition Ability Test. 6(11). 54–63.
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2021). Pricing discretely monitored barrier options: When Malliavin calculus expansions meet Hilbert transforms. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 127. 104113–104113. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Peng, et al.. (2020). High-quality 3D shape measurement by kernel-optimized high sinusoidal similarity dither patterns. Applied Optics. 59(34). 10645–10645. 16 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2019). Multi-objective strategy to optimize dithering technique for high-quality three-dimensional shape measurement*. Chinese Physics B. 28(10). 104210–104210. 4 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning & Steven Kou. (2019). Econometrics with Privacy Preservation. Operations Research. 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2019). A Unified Framework for Computing Regime-Switching Models. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2016). A Unified Framework for Options Pricing under Regime Switching Models. 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2014). A Two-Sided Laplace Inversion Algorithm with Computable Error Bounds and its Applications in Financial Engineering. Advances in Applied Probability. 46(3). 766–789. 4 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2014). A two-dimensional, two-sided Euler inversion algorithm with computable error bounds and its financial applications. Stochastic Systems. 4(2). 404–448. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2014). Valuation of stock loans with jump risk. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 40. 213–241. 20 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning, et al.. (2013). Closed-Form Expansions of Discretely Monitored Asian Options in Diffusion Models. Mathematics of Operations Research. 39(3). 789–822. 31 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning & Steven Kou. (2012). Pricing Asian Options Under a Hyper-Exponential Jump Diffusion Model. Operations Research. 60(1). 64–77. 68 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning. (2011). Pricing and Hedging of Quantile Options in a Flexible Jump Diffusion Model. Journal of Applied Probability. 48(3). 637–656. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning. (2011). Pricing and Hedging of Quantile Options in a Flexible Jump Diffusion Model. Journal of Applied Probability. 48(3). 637–656. 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning. (2009). Valuable messages and random outputs of channels in linear network coding. 413–417. 17 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf, et al.. (2007). General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Ning Cai. (1994). Two-way communication complexity of sum-type functions for one processor to be informed. Problems of Information Transmission. 30(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Ning Cai. (1994). On communication complexity of vector-valued functions. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 40(6). 2062–2067. 22 indexed citations
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Brualdi, Richard A., Ning Cai, & Vera Pless. (1992). Orphan structure of the first-order Reed-Muller codes. Discrete Mathematics. 102(3). 239–247. 11 indexed citations

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