I am a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. I am supervised by Dr. Reza Zafarani and researching the Disinformation and Large Language Models (LLMs). Before that, I was a master student in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.

Education

Publication

Cao, Z., Nguyen, J., & Zafarani, R. (2025). Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, 27(1), 20-31.

Cao, Z., Yu, H., Yang, H., & Sano, A. (2023). PiRL: Participant-Invariant Representation Learning for Healthcare Using Maximum Mean Discrepancy and Triplet Loss. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09126.

Cao, Z. (2020, January). Identification of the association between hepatitis B virus and liver cancer using machine learning approaches based on amino acid. In Proceedings of the 2020 10th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (pp. 56-63).