Scholar
Lele Cao
Google Scholar ID: xM2shP8AAAAJ
Senior Principal AI/ML Researcher and Research Lead, Microsoft (ABK); ACM & IEEE Member
Citations & Impact
Citations
773
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
40
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published in premier conferences such as CVPR, AAAI, EMNLP, IJCAI, AISTATS, and KDD, and regularly serves as a reviewer for these venues. Received the Best Reviewer Award from KDD 2024.
Research Experience
- Over 16 years of industry experience in Private Equity, Gaming, Telecom, Geoinformatics, and E-commerce. Supervised more than 10 Master’s students from institutions including KTH, VU, ETH, UU, LiU, and USTC, and currently mentoring industrial Ph.D. candidates.
Education
- Earned a Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from Tsinghua University in 2016, in collaboration with The University of Melbourne.
Background
- Currently serving as a Senior Principal AI Researcher and Research Lead at Microsoft (Activision Blizzard King). Research interests include self-supervised representation learning, graph learning, offline reinforcement learning, event streams, and time series modeling.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include participating in various academic activities and lectures, such as a presentation on Learning-on-Graph (LoG) research topics at Uppsala University, and a guest lecture on AI and Entrepreneurial Finance at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).
