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Dr. Jie Cao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, affiliated with the Gallogly College of Engineering and the Data Science and Analytics Institute. He holds a PhD from the University of Utah, and MS/BS degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), dialogue systems, structured prediction, and trustworthy AI applications in education and healthcare. Prior to OU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT) at the University of Colorado Boulder, and worked as a research scientist at WeChat AI, Amazon, and in software engineering at Alibaba and Baidu.
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Utah
- MS in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- BS in Information Security, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests:
Dr. Cao’s work spans multi-party/multimodal dialogue analysis, LLM alignment, efficient structured prediction, and robust AI deployment. Notable projects include AI partners for collaborative classrooms, discourse analysis in psychotherapy, and database workload characterization. His research bridges foundational NLP/ML advancements with interdisciplinary applications in education, healthcare, and material science.
Key Achievements:
- Recipient of the iSAT Trainee Grant (2023) and Alternative Textbook Grant (2025)
- Lead developer of MatterChat, a multi-modal LLM for material science
- Published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in top venues like ACL, COLING, and IEEE TVCG
- Co-instructor for NLP courses integrating LLM and agentic AI materials
Labs & Teams: Leads the OUNLP lab at OU, focusing on advancing dialogue systems and trustworthy AI solutions.
