Zhiqiang Cai

Zhiqiang Cai is a researcher in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW-Madison. He has a M Sc. degree in computational mathematics received in 1985 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China. He was an assistant/associate professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 1985 to 2001, a visiting associate professor at Sudan University of Science and Technology from 1996 to 2000, a visiting associate professor at the University of Paris VI in 1995, and a researcher in the Institute for Intelligent Systems, the University of Memphis from 2001 to 2019. His research interests include algorithm design and software development for intelligent tutoring systems, natural language processing, automatic text data coding and epistemic network analysis. He is the chief software designer and developer of Coh-Metrix, OperationAries, CSAL AutoTutor and many other text analysis tools and conversational tutoring systems. He has co-authored over 70 publications.