Yuzhuo Cai is a university lecturer and adjunct professor at the Higher Education Group, School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland. He is also the research coordinator of the Chinese Education Research & Exchange Centre, University of Tampere.

He completed his Ph.D. in Administrative Science at the University of Tampere, Finland in 2007. He also received a Master's degree in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oslo, Norway in 2002, a Master's degree in psychology from Hebei Normal University, China in 1999. Before his academic career, he worked as a university administrator and civil servant in China for 9 years.

His main research areas are higher education policy and management, institutional theory, internationalisation of higher education (employability of international graduates and education export) and transformation of higher education in innovation systems.