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Lang Cao

A passionate and self-motivated thinker, practitioner, researcher, and entrepreneur in AI.

Experiences

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

  • Master of Science in Computer Science (Research-oriented Program)
  • Sept. 2022 - May 2024 (expected), Urbana, USA
  • Advised by Prof. Jimeng Sun
  • GPA: 3.89/4.0
  • Research Assistant at Sunlab
    • Jan. 2023 - Now, Urbana, US
    • Research Focus: Natural Language Processing for Healthcare and Legal.
    • Projects:
      • Legal Case Outcome Prediction with Case Law
      • Large Language Models for Rare Disease Information Extraction and Potential Rare Disease Prediction
    • Advisor: Jimeng Sun, Danica Xiao

Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT)

  • Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering

  • Sept. 2018 - June 2022, Wuhan, China

  • GPA: 4.351/5.0 (3.94/4.0); Rank: 1st/79

  • Research Assistant at Bioinformatics Innovation Lab (Text Group)

    • Jan. 2021 - May. 2022
    • Research Focus: Information Extraction and Text Mining.
    • Projects: Named Entity Extraction from Biomedical Literature
    • Advisor: Jing Peng

  • Teaching Assistant in Course: Algorithm Design and Analysis

    • Feb. 2020 - June 2020

Professional Experiences

LegalNow, LegalDAO (Legal AI Startup)

  • July 2023 - Now, Beijing, China
  • Cofounder & AI Tech Leader
  • Job Content:
    • Individually completed the construction of an AI legal chatbot in the demo version of the product, which can assist and guide users in achieving multiple functions related to contracts drafting.
    • Provided technical support and developed the overall AI framework for the first launching product.

iFLYTEK CO. LTD.

  • June 2021 - Aug. 2021, Hefei, China
  • NLP Algorithm Engineer at Smart Car Technology R&D Division
  • Job Content: maintained and developed an automatic data iteration algorithm for training data of smart car AI system.
  • Advisor: Shen’an Li

Volunteer Experiences

English Teaching Volunteer in Thailand

  • Jan 2020, Chiangmai, Thailand
  • Educational volunteer
  • Volunteer Content: provided voluntary English teaching for 60 primary school students (35h).

Honors & Awards

  • Silver Medal, top 5% in Kaggle Common Lit Readability Prize (2021.8)
  • Top 2% in Alibaba Tianchi NLP Chinese Pre-training Model Generalization Ability Challenge (2021.1)
  • 2nd Prize in National College Computer Ability Challenge - Artificial Intelligence Application Contest (2021.1)
  • Silver Award in China College Students’ “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (2020.9)
  • National Scholarship (1%), WHUT (2020); Merit Student Model Honor (5‰), WHUT (2020); First-class Scholarship, WHUT
    (2021); Merit Student Honor, WHUT (2021); Outstanding Graduate, WHUT (2022.6); Outstanding Thesis, WHUT (2022.6)
  • The National Champion of the FIRST LEGO League in China (2014.6); Gold Award at the Asia-Pacific Championship of the
    FIRST LEGO League (2016.7)

Skills

  • Programming: Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell
  • Machine Learning Techniques: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Huggingface Transformers, LangChain, DGL, Scikit-learn,
    NumPy, Pandas
  • Software Development Techniques: Vue.js, React.js, Node.js, Django, Flask, Express, Hadoop, SQL, MFC, QT
  • Others: LaTeX, Markdown, Git, Linux