Lin Cai, IEEE Fellow and volunteer for 20 years, is a 2022 IEEE WIE Voting Member, elected member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Board of Governors, 2019 – 2021 and 2022-2024. She has co-founded and chaired the IEEE Victoria Section Vehicular Technology and Communications Joint Societies Chapter.

Since 2005, she has been with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria, and she is currently a Professor.  She is an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow and an Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Fellow. In 2020, she was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a 2020 “Star in Computer Networking and Communications” by N2Women. Her research interests span several areas in communications and networking, with a focus on network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic and the Internet of Things.  She is the Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEiC)  for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE VTS and IEEE ComSoc societies.