Lele Cao
Sr Principal AI Researcher, Microsoft (ABK) | Ph.D., Tsinghua University

I currently serve as a Senior Principal AI Researcher and Research Lead at Microsoft (Activision Blizzard King)
. I earned my Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from Tsinghua University in collaboration with The University of Melbourne in 2016.
With over 16 years of industry experience in Private Equity
, Gaming
, Telecom
, Geoinformatics
, and E-commerce
, I have published in premier conferences such as CVPR, AAAI, EMNLP, IJCAI, AISTATS and KDD, and regularly serve as a reviewer for these venues. I have supervised more than 10 Master’s students from institutions including KTH, VU, ETH, UU, LiU, and USTC, and currently mentor industrial Ph.D. candidates.
My research focuses on self-supervised representation learning, graph learning, offline reinforcement learning, event streams, and time series modeling. If you are interested in “transforming industries through AI research”, I generally welcome research collaboration inquiries at lelecao@microsoft.com
.