Steven Cao

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shcao [at] stanford.edu



Hello! I am a second-year PhD student at Stanford, where I am grateful to be advised by Percy Liang and Gregory Valiant. My research is in natural language processing, machine learning, and theory. In the past, I've worked on matrix completion, syntactic parsing, grammar induction, and multilingual modeling.

Before Stanford, I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley, where I was lucky to be advised by Dan Klein, Kannan Ramchandran, and Chunlei Liu.


Recent Publications


News


[March 2021] I was selected to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
[December 2020] I received the 2021 CRA Undergraduate Researcher Award!
[May 2020] I had a great time discussing multilingual models with Matt Gardner and Pradeep Dasigi as a guest on the NLP Highlights podcast! You can find the episode here.

Selected Publications


One-sided Matrix Completion from Two Observations Per Row Steven Cao, Percy Liang, Gregory Valiant ICML, 2023

Low Complexity Probing via Finding Subnetworks Steven Cao, Victor Sanh, Alexander M. Rush NAACL, 2021

Unsupervised Parsing via Constituency Tests Steven Cao, Nikita Kitaev, Dan Klein EMNLP, 2020

Multilingual Alignment of Contextual Word Representations Steven Cao, Nikita Kitaev, Dan Klein ICLR, 2020

Multilingual Constituency Parsing with Self-Attention and Pre-Training Nikita Kitaev, Steven Cao, Dan Klein ACL, 2019


Teaching


EECS 126: Probability and Random Processes (Spring 2020) - Teaching Assistant

EECS 16A: Linear Algebra and Circuits (Spring 2019) - Teaching Assistant