JING CAO

About me

Hi! I'm a 3rd-year undergraduate at MIT (class of 2026) majoring in Computer Science and Engineering (6-3). I'm motivated to create intelligent agents, physical or digital, that can reason and act autonomously in complex environments.

Previously, I've interned at Amazon Web Services on the Creative Tools team. At MIT, I've done research in the Computer-Aided Programming Group and the Computational Cognitive Science Group. Currently, I am researching robot task and motion planning using foundation models in the Learning and Intelligent Systems Group.

Outside of academics, you can find me listening to jazz, growing things, or losing at chess.

Research

	Trust the PRoC3S: Solving Long-Horizon Robotics Problems with LLMs and Constraint Satisfaction Aidan Curtis, Nishanth Kumar, Jing Cao, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling (2024) 2024 Conference on Robotic Learning (CoRL) ► website ► paper
	MMToM-QA: Multimodal Theory of Mind Question Answering Chuanyang Jin, Yutong Wu, Jing Cao, Jiannan Xiang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Zhiting Hu, Tomer Ullman, Antonio Torralba, Joshua Tenenbaum, Tianmin Shu (2024) 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Outstanding Paper Award ► website ► paper

Projects

ObNoDog: Shape Detector on Not a Dog

Real-time shape detection and classification on an FPGA using Connected Components Labeling and Moore's Neighbor Tracing.
F24 6.205 Final Project

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