Scholar
Lang Cao
Google Scholar ID: CefzkpEAAAAJ
CS PhD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
218
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
19
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Chain-of-Alpha: A dual-chain LLM-based framework for alpha mining in quantitative trading (Under Review, 2025)
- Fortune: Formula-driven reinforcement learning for symbolic table reasoning in language models (Under Review, 2025)
- Bingo: Dynamic and significance-based reinforcement learning for efficient LLM reasoning (Under Review, 2025)
- SuperRL: Unified supervised and reinforcement learning framework to boost LLM reasoning (Under Review, 2025)
- DeepRetrieval: Hacking real search engines with LLMs via reinforcement learning (COLM 2025)
- TablePilot: Recommending human-preferred tabular data analysis with LLMs (ACL 2025 Industry Track, Oral)
Background
- PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) and their applications
- Interested in improving reasoning capabilities of LLMs and exploring practical applications
- Research areas include machine learning, machine reasoning, AI for health, LLM reasoning, LLM generation, Table LLMs, LLM agents, and NLP applications
- Active practitioner in Web3 and quantitative trading
