Greetings!

I’m Yong Cao, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous Vision Group (AVG), University of Tübingen, supervised by Prof. Andreas Geiger. I obtained my Ph.D. degreee at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. 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.

News

• [2025-03] A new survey paper, Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation, is now available on arXiv.
• [2025-03] One paper is published at Information Processing & Management.
• [2025-02] I am serving as Area Chair for ACL 2025.
• [2025-01] Two papers are accepted to NAACL 2025 main.
• [2024-12] We are orgainzing the third Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP) Co-located with NAACL 2025!
• [2024-11] Thrilled to join the amazing Workshop of the ELLIS Natural Language Processing Program.
• [2024-09] I will join the AVG group at the University of Tübingen as a Postdoc.
• [2024-06] I finished my Ph.D. defense at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Thanks my Supervisor Prof. Min Chen.
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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]
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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.