Faculty

Yan CAI

Title:Associate Professor
Office:Room 205, Building E
Tel:+86-21-3420-2835

Introduction

Research Interests
Process inspection and mechanism analysis of laser welding

Biographical Information

Education:

9/1994 – 7/1998: Undergraduate student, Shandong University of Technology
9/1998 – 3/2001:  Graduate student in Material Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
9/2002 – 12/2007: Ph.D candidate in Material Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Professional Appointments:

4/2001 – present:  teacher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
7/2005 – 9/2005: Visiting Scholar, Bremen University, Germany
7/2009 – 9/2005: Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego, USA
7/2009 – 9/2005: Visiting Scholar, Osaka University, Japan

Research Interests

Process inspection and mechanism analysis of laser welding

Selected Publications

 1. Cai Yan, Li Guohua, Huang Jian, Zhao Lianglei, Wu Yixiong, Study on process stability and seam characteristics of high power laser welding with filling wire for high thickness steel[J], Lasers in Material Processing and Manufacturing, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 6825
 2. Li, G.H., Cai, Y, Wu, Y.X., Stability information in plasma image of high power CO2 laser welding [J]. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. Vol. 47, 2009, pp. 990-994.
 3. Tong Tong, Yan Cai, Dawei Sun, Edge detection combined local gray level difference and competitive fuzzy logic, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols, 220~223 (2012), pp1284-1287

Research Projects

Honors & Awards