Jie Cao
Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJie Cao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma with 12 years of experience bridging applied industry systems and academic NLP research. After a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and a postdoc at the NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming, Jie focuses on predicting structured representations from text, including semantic parsing and dialogue state tracking. His background includes applied scientist roles at AWS and internships at Tencent and Baidu, where he worked on large-scale dialogue systems and production voice assistants. He brings practical systems experience—ranging from petabyte-scale data migration at Sohu to end-to-end product development at a startup—into principled ML research. Colleagues describe him as interdisciplinary and collaborative, having worked across language, education, and cognitive teams at iSAT. Based in Norman, OK, Jie combines research rigor with hands-on engineering to push conversational AI toward real-world, classroom-aware applications.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
ranking10
react9
science9
computer-science9
amazon6
python4
aws4
semantic2
r-language2
statistics1
compiler1
renjin1
jvm1
interpreter1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mlciv/alfred
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
jiessie/jiessie.github.com
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:87 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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