Professor Jinfa Cai has been elected to serve as the New Co-Chair for the Special Interest Group on Research in Mathematics Education (SIG/RME), affiliated with the American Educational research Association. SIG/RME is the primary organization for research in mathematics education in the United States. The purpose of SIG/RME is to promote and to disseminate research, development, and evaluative efforts in mathematics education, and to promote and encourage scholarly and productive exchanges among members of all the constituencies that affect, or are affected by, research on the learning and teaching of mathematics.

It is a two-year term as co-Chair (2010-2012, the first year as Junior Co-Chair and the second year as Senior Co-chair). The major responsibilities of the co-chair include organizing annual meetings for American Educational Research Association's annual meeting on Research in Mathematics Education and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-session, overseeing junior scholar award and senior scholar award in Research in Mathematics Education, and communicating with various constituencies concerning the research related to the learning and teaching of mathematics.