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Education Experience

B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMich-SJTU Joint Institute, 2023
Minor in Data Science, UMich-SJTU Joint Institute, 2023
Ph.D in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Shanghai AI Lab, 2028 (expected)

Winter Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 12/2019 ~ 01/2020
Exchange Student at University of Wisconsin, Madison, 01/2022 ~ 06/2022

WorldCupArena: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Language Models and Deep-Research Agents on Football Forecasting, Zhaokai Wang, Tianlin Gui, Jiayuan Rao, Shangzhe Di, Yihong Tang, Dingli Liang. In submission, 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
SoccerNet 2026 Challenges Results, SoccerNet Team. In submission, 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Video]
GenTac: Generative Modeling and Forecasting of Soccer Tactics, Jiayuan Rao, Tianlin Gui, Haoning Wu, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie. In submission, 2026. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
SoccerMaster: A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding, Haolin Yang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu, Weidi Xie. CVPR, 2026. (Oral | Award Candidate) [Webpage] [arXiv]
SoccerRef-Agents: Multi-Agent System for Automated Soccer Refereeing, Zi Meng, Wanli Song, Yi Hu, Jiayuan Rao, Gang Chen. ISACE, 2026. (Oral) [arXiv]
Multi-Agent System for Comprehensive Soccer Understanding, Jiayuan Rao, Zifeng Li, Haoning Wu, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie. ACM Multimedia, 2025. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu, Hao Jiang, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie. CVPR, 2025. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu, Chang Liu, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie. EMNLP Oral, 2024. [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]

@NICE, Online: Invited talk about AI4Sports research and startup, 2026.6 [Record Here]
@SoccerNet / MatchMate: WorldCupArena benchmark for football forecasting goes live on MatchMate Predict, 2026.7
@NICE, Online: “When LLM Starts Narrating Soccer: About Applications of Multimodal Models in Sports” 2024.9.28 [Record Here]
@EMNLP, Miami: Oral Presentation Session of Paper “MatchTime”, 2024.11.14 [Record Here]
@NICE, Online: Round table meeting around “AI Movie & Long-form Video Understanding”, 2024.12.16 [Record Here]
@EA Sports, Vancouver: Building Soccer AI: From Visual Understanding to Holistic Game Intelligence, 2025.6.26

MC of Shaquille O’Neal China Tour, Shanghai, 2023.9.28
MC of Pamela Reif China Tour, Shanghai, 2023.11.4
Hosted 50th Sports Meeting of SJTU, 2024.5.18
Hosted 129 Running Festival of SJTU, 2024.12.8
MC of CUBAL (Chinese University Basketball Association League), Shanghai, 2025.5.8-2025.5.12
MC of LeBron James China Tour, Shanghai, 2025.9.4
@NICE: Sharing session of ACL 2025, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025, ICCV 2025; Weekly sharing.

Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

(FA21) MATH2560J, Honors Linear Algebra & Differential Equation, Advisor: Prof. Olga Danilkina
(FA21) MATH2160J, Calculus Ⅳ, Advisor: Prof. Olga Danilkina
(SU22) CUL2610J, French Culture, Advisor: Prof. Aline Chevalier
(FA22) STAT4060J, Computational Methods for Statistics and Data Science, Advisor: Prof. Ailin Zhang
(FA23) BUS3680J, Architecture, Sustainability and the City, Advisor: Prof. Aline Chevalier

Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of AI

Summer 2020: Information Technology Specialist Intern
- State Grid Corporation of China
- Duties included: Data analysis, Web maintainance
Fall 2021: Research Assistant
- UM-SJTU JI: Efficient and Intelligent Computing Laboratory
- Duties included: Theory construction and calculation
- Supervisor: Professor An Zou

Class Advisor, F2037005 in SJTU, 2020.9 ~ 2023.8
Class Monitor, F1937005 in SJTU, 2020.12 ~ 2023.8
Assistant Director, Practice Department, Youth Volunteer Team of SJTU, 11/2020 ~ 12/2021
Assistant Director, Communication Department, SJTU Sports Union, 11/2020 ~ 12/2021