Scholar
Defu Cao
Google Scholar ID: fHCd9MsAAAAJ
Peking University; MBZUAI; University of Southern California; Caltech
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,651
H-index
14
i10-index
21
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published multiple papers in top conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, ICRA, ICDM, and NAACL
- - 2024 Best Research Assistant Award at USC
- - 2024 Graduate School Endowed Fellowship
- - 2024 Invited talks on Time Series Foundation Model in QuantLLM Community, Lehigh University, and Emory University
- - 2023 Invited talk at Google Sustainable Urban Mobility: Simulation and Optimization Workshop
- - 2022 Paper on Representation Learning accepted by CVPR
- - 2022 Paper on Neural Operator accepted by ICLR
- - 2021 Organized ICAIF 2021 workshop - Time Series in Finance
Research Experience
- - Summer 2024: Quantitative Researcher at Cubist Systematic Strategies
- - Summer 2023: Research Assistant at MBZUAI, working with Prof. Kun Zhang and Prof. Biwei Huang
- - Summer 2022: Research Intern at Adobe Research, mentored by Dr. Zhaowen Wang
- - Previous internships at Microsoft Research Asia (twice) and Alibaba Damo Academy’s Data Analytics and Intelligence Lab, advised by Dr. Yujing Wang and Dr. Jingren Zhou respectively
- - First internship: Baidu, 7 years ago
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Yan Liu
- - Master's Degree from Peking University, School of EECS, co-advised by Prof. Xu Cheng and Prof. Xianhua Liu
Background
- - Research Interests: Developing advanced machine learning and data mining algorithms, particularly for time series foundation models
- - Professional Field: Causal inference, graph neural networks, spectral domain representation, interpretability, and robustness
- - Introduction: Aims to create models that demonstrate a deep understanding of temporal patterns and dynamics in various domains, including spatio-temporal and relational data.
Miscellany
- - Hobbies and interests not mentioned
