She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H.
[1] Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.
[1] Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
[3] She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.
[citation needed] Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.