Greetings!

I’m Yong Cao, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where I work with Prof. Min Chen in the EPIC lab. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, particularly culture adaptation, dialogue agents, and text generation.

Since 2022, I’ve been a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, where I’m advised by Prof. Daniel Hershcovich in the CoAStaL group.

News

• [2024-03] Give a talk at Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
• [2024-02] Give a talk at Philipps-University Marburg.
• [2024-02] Excited to visit Christin Seifert at Philipps-University Marburg and Dirk U. Wulff at Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
• [2024-01] Two papers were accepted by EACL 2024, one to the main conference and one to findings.
• [2023-12] We are orgainzing the Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop at ACL 2024.
• [2023-12] One paper was accepted by IEEE ICASSP 2024.
• [2023-10] Excited to be selected as DAAD AInet fellow for the Postdoc-NeT-AI 11/2023 Networking Week on Human-centered AI.
• [2023-10] One paper was accepted by Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
• [2023-08] Our paper was reported by Danish newspaper Børsen.
• [2023-07] Our paper was reported by several Danish media, including Politiken, Børsen, Danish TV2, Ekstra Bladet, University of Copenhagen!
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Talk

• [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]
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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
  • Visiting Student, 2020.07 - 2020.10
  • Co-Advisor: Prof. Kai Hwang and Prof. Min Chen
• 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.