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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Selected Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

game 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
Paper / Code / Demo / News
game 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
Paper / Code
game 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
Paper / Code / Capsule / Youtube / L1News
game 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
Paper
game 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
Paper
game 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
Paper
Presentations

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE): Poster presentation (Paris, Jul 2025)

Maastricht University GROW Science Day: Oral + Poster presentation (Maastricht, Jun 2025)

European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG): Oral presentation (Milan, May 2025)

American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM): Poster presentation (Denver, Oct 2024)

Dutch Society of Human Genetics (NVHG): Oral + Poster presentation (Amsterdam, Sep 2024)

Genetics Retreat NVHG graduate meeting: Oral presentation (Amsterdam, Sep 2024)

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE): Oral presentation (Amsterdam, Jul 2024)

BruMaStra Meeting: Oral presentation (Maastricht, Sep 2023)

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

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer at UnliMited to help disabled students and organize events (Maastricht, 2023 & 2024)

English-Chinese translator at Ovarian Club (Asia) international conference (Hong Kong, 2017 & 2018)

English-Chinese interpreter & translator at IVF International Forum (Shenzhen, 2017)

Volunteer at World Chinese School Library Forum to organize the event (Changsha, 2017)