Lang Cao

Urbana, US
Master of Science in Computer Science (Research-based Program)
Aug. 2022 - May 2024

Wuhan, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
Sept. 2018 - June 2022

Beijing, China
Research Assistant at Microsoft AI & Microsoft Research (Data Knowledge and Intelligence Group)
Aug. 2024 – Now

Research Focus: Spreadsheet Intelligence and Table LLMs.
Projects:
- Dynamically Spreadsheet Encoding for Downstream Tasks
- Spreadsheet Boundary Detection and Structure Extraction with Large Language Models
- Language Model Reasoning with Tabular Data
Mentor: Haoyu Dong

Beijing, China
Research Assistant
Nov. 2024 – Now

Research Focus: Multimodal Learning, Multimodal Large Language Model
Projects:
- Using Visual Chain-of-Thought to Enhance Multimodal Reasoning
- Multimodal Alignment to Reduce Hallucination for Multimodal Large Language Models
Mentor: Tianyu Yu

Urbana, US
Research Assistant
Jan. 2023 – Nov. 2024

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing for Applications in Healthcare and Legal
Projects:
- Legal Case Outcome Prediction with Case Law
- Large Language Models for Rare Disease Information Extraction and Potential Rare Disease Prediction
- Large Language Models for Automatic Clinical Trial
Advisor: Jimeng Sun, Danica Xiao

Kent Ridge, Singapore
Tech Leader / Tech Advisor / Researcher
May. 2024 – July. 2024

Explored emotional large language models and AI for companion, human-computer interaction, and dialogue.
Developed emotional companion applications and researched related core technologies.

Urbana, US
Research Intern
Jan. 2024 – May. 2024

Developed eligibility criteria generator demo, which can automatically generate patient eligibility criteria for clinical trials based on predefined parameters, streamlining the trial setup process.
Developed meta-analysis demo, which can automatically aggregate and analyze data from multiple studies, providing insights and trends for informed decision-making.

Beijing, China
Tech Leader / Tech Advisor / Researcher
June 2023 – Sept. 2023

Individually constructed an AI legal chatbot demo to assist and guide users in achieving multiple contract-related functions.
Provided technical support and developed the overall AI framework for the first product launch.

Hefei, China
NLP Algorithm Engineer at Smart Car Technology R&D Division
June 2021 - Aug. 2021

Maintained and developed an automatic data iteration algorithm for training data of the smart car AI system.
Mentor: Shen’an Li

Wuhan, China
Research Assistant at Text Group
Sept. 2020 - Jan. 2021

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)
Silver Award in China College Students’ “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (2020.9)
2nd Prize in National College Computer Ability Challenge - Artificial Intelligence Application Contest (2021.1)
3rd Prize in Service Outsourcing Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition (SOIEC) for Chinese Students (2021.6)
National Scholarship (1%), WUT (2020); Merit Student Model Honor (5‰), WUT (2020)
Outstanding Graduate (2%), WUT (2022.6); Outstanding Thesis (1%), WUT (2022.6)
The National Champion of the 2014 FIRST LEGO League Challenge in China (core) (2014.6); Gold Award at the Asia-Pacific Championship of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge (leader) (2%) (2016.7)

Programming: Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, Shell, NXT-G/EV3-G
Machine Learning Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Huggingface Transformers, LangChain, DGL, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas
Software Development Frameworks: Vue.js, React.js, Node.js, Django, Flask, Spring Boot, Express, Hadoop, MFC, QT
Tools: LaTeX, Markdown, Git, Linux, Docker