MENG CAI

CONTACT INFORMATION

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 West Xianning Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. Zip Code: 710049

Tel: (86-29) 8266-8281; Fax: (86-29) 8266-8281

Email: mengcai@xjtu.edu.cn

EDUCATION

2014: School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University. Doctor's degree: Management Science and Engineering

2009: School of Software and Microelectronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University. Master's degree: Software Engineering

2006: School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University. Bachelor's degree: Information Engineering

EMPLOYMENT

2019 - present: Researcher, Institute for Empirical Social Science Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University

2019 - present: Specially-appointed Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University

2016 - 2018: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University, The United States of America

2014 - 2019: Lecturer/ Associate Professor, School of Economics & Management, Xidian University

2010: Intern, Human-Computer Interaction Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

AREAS OF INTERESTS

Sociology of guanxi, Social networks and social capital, Social computing and its applications, Control and optimization for the complex system

MAJOR EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS

2022-2024, "Special Support Program for High-level Talents" in Shaanxi Province

2021-2022, Governance Research of Environmental Group Events based on Resource Mobilization Theory, Innovation Capability Support Project in Shaanxi Province, China (Soft Science Research Plan) (Grant No. 2021KRM135)

2018-2019, The Impact of Multiple Social Capital on Employees' Performance in SMEs, Innovation Capability Support Project in Shaanxi Province, China (Soft Science Research Plan) (Grant No. 2018KRM120)

2016, Research on 'Chinese-Made 2025'-Oriented Organization Structure and Performance of Small and Micro Businesses, Young Talent fund of University Association for Science and Technology in Shaanxi, China (Grant No. 20150302)

2016-2018, Analysis of Network Structure and Evolution in Public Security-Oriented Collective Behaviors: Based on Social Computing and Large Scale Network Data, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71501153)

BOOKS (Chinese Language)

Wei Du, Yike Ren, Meng Cai. 2014. Employees Social Network and Individual Performance, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.

Haifeng Du, Jingkun Niu, Kaiqi Zhang, Meng Cai, Xiaochen He. 2019. Social Network Analysis on Collective Behavior: The Application of Social Computing on Rural Worker’s Collective Behavior, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.

SELECTED ARTICLES

Meng Cai, Jiaqi Liu, Ying Cui. Network Robustness Analysis Based on Maximum Flow, Frontiers in Physics, 2021. (English Language)

Meng Cai, Han Luo, Ying Cui. A Study on the Topic-Sentiment Evolution and Diffusion in Time Series of Public Opinion Derived from Emergencies, Complexity, 2021. (English Language)

Meng Cai, Wei Wang, Ying Cui, H. Eugene Stanley. Multiplex Network Analysis of Employee Performance and Employee Social Relationships, Physica A, 2018. (English Language)

Meng Cai, Haifeng Du. The Impact of Employees’ Accumulated Social Capital on Individual Performance in Enterprise, Management Science, 2020. (Chinese Language)

Meng Cai, Haifeng Du, Marcus W. Feldman. Caveman Network and Its Application in Analysis of Complex Network Entropy, Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2017. (Chinese Language)