Greetings!

I’m Yong Cao, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous Vision Group (AVG), University of Tübingen, supervised by Andreas Geiger. I obtained my Ph.D. degreee at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2024 under the supervision of Min Chen. From October 2022 to May 2024, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, supervised by Daniel Hershcovich. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Sichuan University in 2018.

My research focuses on scientific document analysis, including multimodal document understanding, summarization, impact prediction, and scientific document generation. Additionally, I am also interested in cultural adaptation in large language models, particularly in areas such as cross-cultural generation and social value alignment.

My KU email (yongcao@di.ku.dk) and HUST email (yongcao_epic@hust.edu.cn) unexpectedly expired. Therefore, please reach out to me via my Google email: yongcao2018@gmail.com.

News

Talk

  • [2024-09] Cultural Considerations in NLP, Xiaomi. [Slides]
  • [2024-03] Cultural Considerations in Large Language Models, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
  • [2024-02] Cultural Considerations in Dialogue Systems, Philipps-University Marburg. [Slides]
  • [2023-10] Cultural Adaptation of Large Language Models. DIKU Bits, University of Copenhagen. [Abstract] [Slides]

Education

  • University of Copenhagen
    • Visiting Student, 2022.10 - 2024.03
    • Advisor: Prof. Daniel Hershcovich
    • Research Topic: Cross-Cultural Dialogue Agents
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2018.09 -
    • Advisor: Prof. Min Chen
    • Research Topic: Dialogue Agents in Psychological Counseling Domain
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • Sichuan University
    • B.E. in Telecommunication Engineering, 2014 - 2018
    • Advisor: Prof. Wudi Wei
    • Thesis Title: Speech Emotion Analysis based on Convolutional Neural Network
    • SCU Outstanding Undergraduate Award (Top 5%)

Experience

  • 06/2022 - 10/2022, Alibaba DAMO
    • Research Intern at the NLP group
    • Mentor: Ruixue Ding and Boli Chen.
    • Focus: Semantic Textual Similarity, Re-ranking
  • 10/2021 - 05/2022, Xiaomi
    • Research Intern at the Knowledge Graph group
    • Mentor: Wen Dai and Huiwen Liu.
    • Focus: Question Answering Based on Knowledge Graph
  • 01/2021 - 06/2021, Deepwisdom
    • Research Intern at the Natural Language Processing group
    • Mentor: Yang Zhang.
    • Focus: AutoML, NER, Text Classification and Information Extraction
  • 07/2020 - 10/2020, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    • Visiting Student at the SDS College
    • Mentor: Prof. Kai Hwang and Prof. Min Chen
    • Focus: Deep Learning Benchmark, Huawei Atlas 200DK.