Haofan Cai is an assistant professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.  She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz, US, in 2023, and  B.S. in Communications Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, China, in 2016.

Her research spans the areas of wireless networking, Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile computing, and network security.