Yupeng Cao

Yupeng Cao

Hi there! I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Yale University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Previously, I received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, where I was awarded the Provost Doctoral Fellowship and Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. I got the M.S. degree in Multimedia Telecommunication from University of Liverpool. Before that, I obtained my B.Eng degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Research Interests: My research span Natural Language Processing (NLP), Multimodal, Agentic, Trustworthy AI, with applications in Finance and Medicine.

If you’re interested at anything or if you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to contact me at: caoyupeng.work at gmail dot com; yupeng.cao at yale dot com

🔥 News

  • 2026.07: 🎉 One paper was accepted by COLM 2026
  • 2026.06: Joined Yale University as a Postdoctoral Associate
  • 2026.04: Passed Ph.D. Final Disseration!
  • 2026.03: 🎉 Two paper was accepted by ACL 2026
  • 2026.01: 🎉 One paper was accepted by WWW
  • 2025.07: 💻 Organizing Microsymposium on Advances and Applications of LLMs in Finance at SIAM FM25
  • 2025.05: 🎉 Two paper InvestorBench (main) and FlagTrader(finding) are headed to ACL 2025
  • 2024.11: Service as a Session Chair at ICAIF 2024
  • 2024.09: 🎉 One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2024
  • 2024.09: 🎉 One paper was accepted by ICAIF 2024
  • 2024.08: 💻 We host Agent-Based Single Cryptocurrenty Trading Challenge @ Coling 2025
  • 2023.02: Served as the Lab Session Instructor for CPE 390 - Microprocessor Systems (Spring and Fall)
  • 2022.05: Passed Ph.D. Qualify Exam
  • 2021.06: One paper was accepted by InterSpeech 2021

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2026.05 Outstanding Ph.D. Disseration Award
  • 2021 - 2025 Provost Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2021.05 Outstanding Master Thesis Award
  • 2020.08 Stevens ECE 2020 Honours Summer Research Program 3rd Award

📝 Publications

(* co-first author / equal contributions)

Main Publication

💼 Work Experience

  • 2025.06 - Now, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale University
  • 2025.07 - 2025.08, Spectronn, Research Engineer Intern.
  • 2025.01 - 2025.06, Nokia Bell Labs, Research Scientist Intern.

📖 Educations

  • 2021.09 - 2026.05, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology.
  • 2019.09 - 2021.07, M.S. in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Stevens Institute of Technology.
  • 2017.09 - 2018.12, M.S. in Multimedia Telecommunication, University of Liverpool (Merit).
  • 2013.09 - 2017.07, B.Eng (honours) in Telecommunication, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

🎙️Invited Talks

  • 2026.02: Innovative Computing and Networked Systems (iCNS) Distinguished Lectures
  • 2025.07: SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM25)
  • 2025.03: Wolfe Research AI in Finance Conference
  • 2024.11: The Fifth ACM International Conference on AI in Finance

🧑‍🎨Professional Service

  • Organizers @ SIAM FM25 Microsymposium on Advances and Applications of LLMs in Finance
  • Session Chair @ 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance
  • Workshop/Challenge Organizer:
    • Multilingual Financial Language Understanding @ EMNLP-2026
    • FinAI Contest 2025, 2026
    • Agent-based Single Cryptocurrency Trading @ COLING-2025
  • PC Member:
    • FinNLP @ COLING-2025, EMNLP-2026
    • ACM 6th International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 26)
  • Conference Reviewer: NuerIPS (25, 26), ICLR (25, 26), ICML (25, 26), ARR (24, 25, 26), KDD (24, 25, 26), ICAIF (24, 25), ICASSP (25)
  • Journal Reviewer: TMLR, IEEE IoT Journal, TAI, TNNLS, ACM the Web

💻 Skills

  • Programmings: Python, C/C++, CUDA, MATLAB, Assembly.
  • Frameworks: PyTorch, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Keras, Tensorflow2.x/1.x, Scikit, Caffe.
  • Application Skills: Linux, Git, LaTeX, Vim, Shell, AWS, Docker, PySpark.