Shengcao Cao

Shengcao Cao

PhD Student

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

About Me

Welcome!

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Liang-Yan Gui & Yu-Xiong Wang. Previously, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with MS in Robotics, where I was advised by Kris Kitani, and Peking University with BS in Computer Science, where I was advised by Liwei Wang.

I mainly study the intersection of machine learning and computer vision, in particular developing visually grounded large multimodal models, and self-supervised approaches to object-level visual recognition. I also explore computation-efficient vision models via model compression and neural architecture search.

I am looking for research internships for Summer 2025. Feel free to contact me if interested!

Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021 - Present

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • MS in Robotics, 2019 - 2021

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • BS in Computer Science, 2015 - 2019

    Peking University

Publications and Manuscripts

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