I’m a second-year master student from IGCS Lab of Sun Yat-sen University under the supervision of Prof. Zheng. I also spent some time at the HPGC research group of Tsinghua University as a visiting student, supervised by Prof. Fu. During my undergraduate studies, I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Peng. My current research interest includes:

1. Transfer Learning for Vision Models
   • Test-Time Adaptation: AMROD (under review), LSCD-TTA (JAG ‘25), TTA-FedDG (AAAI ‘25), UAA (under review).
   • Parameters-Efficient Fine-Tuning: WeatherPEFT (ICLR ‘26).
   • Domain Generalization: TTA-FedDG (AAAI ‘25), AABAW (ICME ‘25).
   • Federated Learning: TTA-FedDG (AAAI ‘25), AABAW (ICME ‘25), SPFL (under review).
2. Spatio-Temporal Modeling
   • Weather and Climate: WeatherPEFT (ICLR ‘26), ResCast (under review), TianQuan-Climate (ICLR ‘26).
   • Remote Sensing: $A^2$-MAE (under review), LSCD-TTA (JAG ‘25).

You can find my CV here.

Email: caoshlei@mail2.sysu.edu.cn and j799017232@gmail.com

Publications

* indicates equal contribution and # represents corresponding author

First/Co-First Author

[5] Shilei Cao*, Hehai Lin*, Jiashun Cheng, Yang Liu, Guowen Li, Xuehe Wang, Juepeng Zheng#, Haoyuan Liang, Meng Jin, Chengwei Qin, Hong Cheng, Haohuan Fu. Task-Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Weather Foundation Models. The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2026).

[4] Haoyuan Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Guowen Li, Zhiyu Ye, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng#. SPFL: Sequential Updates with Parallel Aggregation for Enhanced Federated Learning Under Category and Domain Shifts. The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2025), CCF-A.

[3] Haoyuan Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Yushan Lai, Juepeng Zheng#. Federated Open-Set Domain Generalization with Adaptive Adjustment Boundary and Weights. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME, 2025), Oral, CCF-B.

[2] Yu Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Juepeng Zheng#, Xiucheng Zhang, Jianxi Huang, and Haohuan Fu. Low Saturation Confidence Distribution-based Test-Time Adaptation for Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Image Classification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG, 2025), 中科院1区TOP (CAS Tier 1 TOP), JCR Q1, IF=7.5. (PDF)

[1] Kangyu Yuan*, Hehai Lin*, Shilei Cao*, Zhenhui Peng#, Qingyu Guo, and Xiaojuan Ma. CriTrainer: An Adaptive Training Tool for Critical Paper Reading. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST, 2023), Oral, CCF-A. (PDF)

Co-Author

[3] Guowen Li, Xintong Liu, Yang Liu, Mengxuan Chen, Shilei Cao, Xuehe Wang, Juepeng Zheng, Jinxiao Zhang, Haoyuan Liang, Lixian Zhang, Jiuke Wang, Meng Jin, Hong Cheng, Haohuan Fu. TianQuan-S2S: A Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Global Weather Model via Incorporate Climatology State. The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2026).

[2] Zhiyu Ye, Guowen Li, Haoyuan Liang, Zixi Wang, Shilei Cao, Yushan Lai, Juepeng Zheng#. Quantifying Samples with Invariance for Source-Free Class Incremental Domain Adaptation. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2025), CCF-A.

[1] Haoyuan Liang, Xinyu Zhang, Shilei Cao, Guowen Li, Juepeng Zheng#. TTA-FedDG: Leveraging Test-Time Adaptation to Address Federated Domain Generalization. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 2025), CCF-A. (PDF)

Honors & Awards

1. The First Price of the National Geographic Information Technology Application Competition for Land Surface Resources Management (2025, ￥50000).

2. The Gold Medal of the Kunpeng Application Innovation Competition (2024, ￥100000).

3. The Outstanding Student Scholarship of Sun Yat-sen University (2021, 2022, 2023).