Ping Cao
Hi, I am a PhD candidate at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
My research focuses on developing AI methods for assisted reproduction. With a background in Medicine and a self-taught specialization in Machine Learning, I work at the intersection of clinical insight and computational innovation. My interests include AI, LLM, embryo imaging, reproductive genetics, and preimplantation genetic testing.
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News
2025-06-24: LLM simplifying genetic texts is accepted by Human Reproduction!
2025-06-20: Excited to share that I've won the Amrapali Zaveri Award for Early Career Data Scientist!
2025-06-10: Thrilled to share that I've been awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad for the year of 2024!
2025-06-10: I will give a talk at the GROW Science Day this month!
2025-04-25: ESHRE2025 has accepted our abstract for Poster Presentation. See you in Paris!
2025-03-28: ESHG2025 accepted our abstract for Oral Presentation, and I was awarded the conference fellowship!
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2024-10-01: LLMs for data analysis is accepted by AOGS!
2024-08-22: I was invited to give a talk about AI in IVF at UMC Utrecht next year!
2024-08-21: AI for embryo ploidy prediction is accepted by NVHG 2024 as a poster presentation, plus 1 min Blitz presentation as the best poster candidate.
2024-07-03: GenAI on embryo image abstract is published in Human Reproduction.
2024-06: GenAI on embryo image is accepted by ASRM 2024 as an E-poster presentation.
2024-04-10: GenAI on blastocyst image is live in Human Reproduction.
2024-04: GenAI on embryo image is accepted by ESHRE 2024 as an Oral presentation.
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Selected Publications
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Artificial intelligence-simplified information to advance reproductive genetic literacy and health equity
Marjan Naghdi*, Ping Cao*, Rick Essers, ..., Andres Salumets, Masoud Zamani Esteki
Human Reproduction, 2025
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Generative artificial intelligence to produce high-fidelity blastocyst-stage embryo images
Ping Cao, Josien Derhaag, ..., Han Brunner, Ganesh Acharya, Andres Salumets, Masoud Zamani Esteki
Human Reproduction, 2024
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Clinical-grade whole genome sequencing-based haplarithmisis enables all forms of preimplantation genetic testing
Anouk Janssen*, Rebekka Koeck*, Rick Essers*, Ping Cao, Wanwisa van Dijk, ..., Han Brunner, Arthur van den Wijngaard, Aimee Paulussen, Masoud Zamani Esteki
Nature Communications, 2024
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Large language models to facilitate pregnancy prediction after in vitro fertilization
Ping Cao, Ganesh Acharya, Andres Salumets, Masoud Zamani Esteki
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2024
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Identification of common genetic polymorphisms associated with down-regulated gonadotropin levels in an exome-wide association study
Yue Shi*, Benyu Miao*, Xixiong Ai*, Ping Cao, ..., Canquan Zhou, Yanwen Xu
Fertility and Sterility, 2023
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Role of gene polymorphisms related to progesterone elevation in women undergoing long GnRH agonist protocols
Ping Cao, Benyu Miao, Yan Xu, Qi Fan, ..., Canquan Zhou, Yanwen Xu
Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 2020
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Honors and Awards
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2025
Amrapali Zaveri Award for Early Career Data Scientist, 2025
Fellowship for European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), 2025
WiDS Maastricht Datathon 1st Place, Maastricht University, 2023
Guangzhou Elite Project Doctoral Fellowship for Overseas Study, 2021-2025
Outstanding Graduate Innovation Grant, Sun Yat-sen University, 2019
Graduate First Prize Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, 2017-2020
Provincial Outstanding Graduate, South China University, 2017
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