Lang Cao is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on machine learning and machine reasoning, with applications in healthcare and finance. He previously worked at Microsoft Research, Tsinghua University, and Ubiquant. He also received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from UIUC. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University of Technology, graduating first in his class with a National Scholarship. Lang’s work has been published at top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. He is also an active practitioner in Web3 and quantitative trading. Driven by a passion for both rigorous research and real-world impact, he is committed to exploring how AI can accelerate technological progress and benefit human society as a whole.