南京理工大学获得博士学位后进入1946伟德国际源自英国从事博士后研究，出站后留校。多次赴斯坦福大学任访问学者。

博士后出站后任副教授，教授（2007），长聘教授。

软件工程（本科）

金融服务计算（研究生）

IT项目管理（研究生）

在国内外重要刊物和会议上发表论文300多篇，期刊包括TPDS，TC，TKDE，TOIS，TON，TSC等，会议包括WWW，ICML，IJCAI，SIGKDD，SIGIR，CVPR，AAAI等。

3年内发表的论文如下：

2025（部分）

l  Haiyang Ren, Shiyou Qian, Zhonglong Zheng, Jiange Zhang, Zhengyu Liao, Hanwen Hu, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: EPC: An ensemble packet classification framework for efficient and stable performance. Comput. Networks 265: 111306 (2025)

l  Yongpeng Dong, Shiyou Qian, Tianchen Ding, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: Proactive event matching with predictive analysis in content-based publish/subscribe systems. Inf. Syst. 129: 102508 (2025)

l  Shanshan Feng, Zeping Lang, Jing He, Huaxiang Zhang, Wenjuan Chen, Jian Cao: A group recommendation method based on automatically integrating members' preferences via taking advantages of LLM. Inf. Sci. 709: 122067 (2025)

l  Qin Hua, Dingyu Yang, Shiyou Qian, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: Humas: A Heterogeneity- and Upgrade-Aware Microservice Auto-Scaling Framework in Large-Scale Data Centers. IEEE Trans. Computers 74(3): 968-982 (2025)

l  Hanwen Hu, Cheng Zeng, Shiyou Qian, Jianhua Zhou, Jian Cao, Yirong Chen, Jie Wang, Han Han: MPF: A Multi-Noise Perception Framework to Enhance Online Map Matching Algorithms. IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. 26(4): 4633-4646 (2025)

l  Dingyu Yang, Kangpeng Zheng, Shiyou Qian, Qin Hua, Kaixuan Zhang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: Mitigating interference of microservices with a scoring mechanism in large-scale clusters. J. Supercomput. 81(1): 104 (2025)

l  Hanwen Hu, Shiyou Qian, Dingyu Yang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: Iterative Time Series Imputation by Maintaining Dependency Consistency. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 19(1): 6:1-6:24 (2025)

l  Qiqi Cai, Jian Cao*, Yirong Chen, Shiyou Qian, Liangxiao Yuan, Jie Wang: PREFER: A Pre-trained Model Recommendation Framework for Edge Computing Enabled Traffic Flow Prediction. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 19(2): 30:1-30:26 (2025)

l  Hanwen Hu, Zhangchi Han, Shiyou Qian, Dingyu Yang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: Pattern-oriented Attention Mechanism for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 19(2): 38:1-38:26 (2025)

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Haiyan Zhao, Yang Gu, Shiyou Qian: Survey and Benchmark of Anomaly Detection in Business Processes. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 37(1): 493-512 (2025)

l  Qiqi Cai, Jian Cao*, Guandong Xu, Nengjun Zhu: Distributed Recommendation Systems: Survey and Research Directions. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 43(1): 10:1-10:38 (2025)

l  Zhengyu Liao, Shiyou Qian, Zhonglong Zheng, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: AWB⁺-Tree: A Novel Width-Based Index Structure Supporting Hybrid Matching for Large-Scale Content-Based Pub/Sub Systems. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 36(6): 1268-1281 (2025)

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Jianqi Gao, Haiyan Zhao, Shiyou Qian: DABL: Detecting Semantic Anomalies in Business Processes Using Large Language Models. AAAI 2025: 11735-11744

l  Yang Gu, Jian Cao*, Hengyu You, Nengjun Zhu*, Shiyou Qian: ADELA: Accelerating Evolutionary Design of Machine Learning Pipelines with the Accompanying Surrogate Model. AAAI 2025: 16915-16923

l  Jianqi Gao, Jian Cao*, Ranran Bu, Nengjun Zhu, Wei Guan, Hang Yu: Promoting Knowledge Base Question Answering by Directing LLMs to Generate Task-relevant Logical Forms. AAAI 2025: 23914-23922

l  Jiaang Duan, Shiyou Qian, Hanwen Hu, Dingyu Yang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: PipeCo: Pipelining Cold Start of Deep Learning Inference Services on Serverless Platforms. SIGMETRICS (Abstracts) 2025: 151-153

l  Xiyu Chang, Liang Zhang, Yong He, Binzong Geng, Ke Ding, Xing Zhu, Jian Cao, Linjian Mo: Singleton CTR Prediction: Towards Single-User Modeling Paradigm with Large Language Models. WWW (Companion Volume) 2025: 898-902 

l  Jianqi Gao, Hao Wu, Yiu-ming Cheung, Jian Cao*, Hang Yu, and Yonggang Zhang*. 2025. Mitigating Forgetting in Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to Text Processing Tasks via Consistency Alignment. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (WWW '25): 3492–3504. 

2024

l  Xinyi Zhang, Yanmin Zhu, Chunyang Wang, Jian Cao, Yirong Chen, Jie Wang: Multi-agent reinforcement learning for vehicular task offloading with multi-step trajectory prediction. CCF Trans. Pervasive Comput. Interact. 6(2): 101-114 (2024)

l  Yongpeng Dong, Shiyou Qian, Wanghua Shi, Junshen Li, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: OEM: An operation-aware event matching algorithm for content-based Pub/Sub systems. Comput. Networks 250: 110561 (2024)

l  Yang Gu, Jian Cao*, Shiyou Qian, Nengjun Zhu, Wei Guan: MANSOR: A module alignment method based on neighbor information for scientific workflow. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 36(10) (2024)

l  Haiyan Zhao, Chengcheng Dong, Jian Cao*, Qingkui Chen: A survey on deep reinforcement learning approaches for traffic signal control. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 133: 108100 (2024)

l  Qing Qi, Jian Cao*: An Empirical Study on Downstream Dependency Package Groups in Software Packaging Ecosystems. IET Softw. 2024: 1-23 (2024)

l  Wenjuan Li, Qifei Zhang, Shuiguang Deng, Bin Zhou, Ben Wang, Jian Cao: Q-Learning Improved Lightweight Consensus Algorithm for Blockchain-Structured Internet of Things. IEEE Internet Things J. 11(2): 2855-2869 (2024)

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Yang Gu, Shiyou Qian: GAMA: A multi-graph-based anomaly detection framework for business processes via graph neural networks. Inf. Syst. 124: 102405 (2024)

l  Yao Wu, Jian Cao*, Guandong Xu: Fairness in Recommender Systems: Evaluation Approaches and Assurance Strategies. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 18(1): 10:1-10:37 (2024)

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Haiyan Zhao, Yang Gu, Shiyou Qian: WAKE: A Weakly Supervised Business Process Anomaly Detection Framework via a Pre-Trained Autoencoder. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 36(6): 2745-2758 (2024)

l  Yao Wu, Jian Cao*, Guandong Xu: FASTER: A Dynamic Fairness-assurance Strategy for Session-based Recommender Systems. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 42(1): 5:1-5:26 (2024)

l  Zhengyu Liao, Shiyou Qian, Zhonglong Zheng, Jiange Zhang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: PT-Tree: A Cascading Prefix Tuple Tree for Packet Classification in Dynamic Scenarios. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 32(1): 506-519 (2024)

l  Zhengyu Liao, Shiyou Qian, Zhonglong Zheng, Jiange Zhang, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li: DBTable: Leveraging Discriminative Bitsets for High-Performance Packet Classification. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 32(6): 5232-5246 (2024)

l  Nengjun Zhu, Lingdan Sun, Xiangfeng Luo, Jian Cao, Qi Zhang, Xinjiang Lu: Exploitation or Exploration Next? User Behavior Decoupling and Emerging Intent Modeling for Next-Item Recommendation. ICDM 2024: 965-970

l  Junshen Li, Haiyang Ren, Zhengyu Liao, Wanghua Shi, Shiyou Qian, Guangtao Xue, Jian Cao, Zhonglong Zheng: DI-Tree: A Dual-ended Interval Tree for Efficient Event Matching in Content-based Pub/Sub Systems. ICPADS 2024: 471-478

l  Dingyu Yang, Ziyang Xiao, Dongxiang Zhang, Shuhao Zhang, Jian Cao, Gang Chen: PREACT: Predictive Resource Allocation for Bursty Workloads in a Co-located Data Center. ICPP 2024: 722-731

l  Yang Gu, Jian Cao*, Shiyou Qian, Nengjun Zhu, Wei Guan: ProSwats: A Proxy-based Scientific Workflow Retrieval Approach by Bridging the Gap between Textual and Structural Semantics. ICWS 2024: 932-943

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Yan Yao, Yang Gu, Shiyou Qian: COMB: Interconnected Transformers-Based Autoencoder for Multi-Perspective Business Process Anomaly Detection. ICWS 2024: 1115-1124

l  Nengjun Zhu, Jieyun Huang, Jian Cao, Liang Hu, Zixuan Yuan, Huanjing Gao: R2V-MIF: Rule-to-Vector Contrastive Learning and Multi-channel Information Fusion for Therapy Recommendation. IJCAI 2024: 2634-2641

2023

l  Y. Gu, J. Cao*, S. Qian and W. Guan, SWORTS: A Scientific Workflow Retrieval Approach by Learning Textual and Structural Semantics, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, doi: 10.1109/TSC.2023.3315478.

l  Yongpeng Dong, Shiyou Qian, Wanghua Shi, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: EEM: An elastic event matching framework for content-based publish/subscribe systems. Comput. Networks 232: 109837 (2023)

l  Weidong Zhu, Shiyou Qian, Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue, Jian Cao, Yanmin Zhu, Wenjuan Li: Lap: A latency-aware parallelism framework for content-based publish/subscribe systems. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 35(17) (2023)

l  Qing Qi, Jian Cao*: METHODS: A meta-path-based method for heterogeneous community detection in the open source software ecosystem. Inf. Softw. Technol. 162: 107271 (2023)

l  Wenjuan Li, Jian Cao, Bin Zhou, Shuiguang Deng, Qifei Zhang, Keyong Hu, Jing Li, Haili Zhao: Multi-cloud service provision based on decision tree and two-layer Restricted Monte Carlo Tree Search. Internet Things 22: 100751 (2023)

l  Qin Hua, Hanwen Hu, Shiyou Qian, Dingyu Yang, Jian Cao: Bi-GAE: A Bidirectional Generative Auto-Encoder. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 38(3): 626-643 (2023)

l  Xiaogang Wang, Jian Cao*, Rajkumar Buyya: Adaptive Cloud Bundle Provisioning and Multi-Workflow Scheduling via Coalition Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Trans. Computers 72(4): 1041-1054 (2023)

l  Hanwen Hu, Shiyou Qian, Jingchao Ouyang, Jian Cao, Han Han, Jie Wang, Yirong Chen: AMM: An Adaptive Online Map Matching Algorithm. IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. 24(5): 5039-5051 (2023)

l  Bohan Jia, Jian Cao*, Shiyou Qian, Nengjun Zhu, Xin Dong, Liang Zhang, Lei Cheng, Linjian Mo: SMONE: A Session-based Recommendation Model Based on Neighbor Sessions with Similar Probabilistic Intentions. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 17(8): 111:1-111:22 (2023)

l  Jian Cao*, Naixuan Wang, Shiyou Qian, Wei Guan: When to Invoke a Prediction Service for Business Process Monitoring? IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. 16(4): 3061-3074 (2023)

l  Wei Guan, Jian Cao*, Yang Gu, Shiyou Qian: GRASPED: A GRU-AE Network Based Multi-Perspective Business Process Anomaly Detection Model. IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. 16(5): 3412-3424 (2023)

l  Qing Qi, Jian Cao*: GAT-Team: A Team Recommendation Model for Open-Source Software Projects. SEKE 2023: 286-291

l  Wei Liang, Wanghua Shi, Zhengyu Liao, Shiyou Qian, Zhonglong Zheng, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: BOP: A Bitset-based Optimization Paradigm for Content-based Event Matching Algorithms (S). SEKE 2023: 487-492

l  Qin Hua, Dingyu Yang, Shiyou Qian, Hanwen Hu, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue: KAE-Informer: A Knowledge Auto-Embedding Informer for Forecasting Long-Term Workloads of Microservices. WWW 2023: 1551-

l  Yang Gu, Jian Cao*, Jinghua Tang, Shiyou Qian, Wei Guan，SWARM: A Scientific Workflow Fragments Recommendation Approach via Contrastive Learning and Semantic Matching, The 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing （ICSOC2023），November 28th – December 1st, 2023, Rome, Italy , LNCS, Vol. 14419 Part II: 54-71

l  Jian Cao*, Chi Wang, Wei Guan, Shiyou Qian, Haiyan Zhao， Remaining Time Prediction for Collaborative Business Processes with Privacy Preservation, The 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing （ICSOC2023），November 28 – December 1, 2023, Rome, Italy, LNCS, Vol. 14419 Part II: 38-53

l  Yang Gu, Jian Cao*, Yuan Guo, Shiyou Qian, Wei Guan，Plan, Generate and Match: Scientific Workflow Recommendation with Large Language Models, The 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing （ICSOC2023），November 28th – December 1st, 2023, Rome, Italy, LNCS, Vol. 14419 Part I: 86-102

l  Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Jian Cao*, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, Haibing Guan. Eliminating Domain Bias for Federated Learning in Representation Space. NeurIPS, 2023

l  Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, Jian Cao, and Haibing Guan. "GPFL: Simultaneously Learning Global and Personalized Feature Information for Personalized Federated Learning." ICCV, 2023.

l  Boxuan Zhao, Jun Zhang, Deheng Ye, Jian Cao, Xiao Han, Qiang Fu, Wei Yang: RLogist: Fast Observation Strategy on Whole-Slide Images with Deep Reinforcement Learning. AAAI 2023: 3570-3578

主持完成：

国家自然科学基金项目6项

国家重点研发计划课题2项

国家863计划课题2项

上海市科委重点项目2项

企业横向课题30余项

参与完成：

国家自然科学基金重点项目2项，国家863计划课题3项，上海市科委重大项目2项等

获上海市科技进步特等奖一项（参与）

上海市科技进步二等奖两项（第一完成人）

港口行业科技进步一等奖一项（主要完成人）

上海市科技进步二等奖三项（主要完成人）

湖南省科技进步二等奖一项（主要完成人）

教育部科技进步二等奖一项（参与）

IEEE高级会员

中国计算机学会杰出会员

上海市计算机学会协同计算与信息服务专委会主任

上海市人工智能学会可信智能系统专委副主任