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 dialog agents, text generation, and question answering based on knowledge graph.

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. 😄

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.

News

• [2023-05] One paper with Xiaomi Pay More Attention to Relation Exploration for Knowledge Base Question Answering was accepted by Findings of ACL 2023.
• [2023-03] Three papers were accepted by Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop at EACL 2023.
• [2022-10] I am excited to be sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council for my visit to the University of Copenhagen! Thanks China!
• [2022-08] One paper Generative adversarial network based abnormal behavior detection in massive crowd videos: a Hajj case study was accepted by Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.
• [2022-05] One paper Scenario-Based AI Benchmark Evaluation of Distributed Cloud/Edge Computing Systems was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• [2022-04] One paper A Task-aware Instruction Network for Sign Language Translation) was accepted by Findings of NAACL 2022.
• [2022-03] Succeed in getting the authorization of invention patent named “Smart Information Extraction System based on Automatic Machine Learning Platform”.
• [2021-08] I am thrilled to receive 2021 Zhejiang Lab’s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals! Thanks Zhejiang Lab!
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