Yong Cao(曹 勇)

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Autonomous Vision Group at the University of Tübingen, working with Prof. Andreas Geiger. I received my Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2024, advised by Prof. Min Chen, and spent 2022–2024 as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen with Daniel Hershcovich. Before that, I studied Telecommunication Engineering at Sichuan University.

My research centers on AI for Science — multimodal understanding of scientific documents, scientific impact prediction, and agents that help researchers ideate and write. I’m equally interested in culture in large language models: how well LLMs reflect the values and knowledge of different societies, and how to adapt them across cultures. Recently, I’ve also been exploring human motion understanding with vision-language models.