Ye Cao obtained her PhD degree in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She completed a two-year American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG)-accredited fellowship in the Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA. She then took up an academic post with CUHK in 2019. Ye has established research interests in various aspects of medical genetics and genomics, focusing on the etiology of genomic disorders such as birth defects, neurodevelopmental disorders, and infertility at the molecular level. Her work involves discovering novel disease-causing genes and investigating the role of somatic mosaicism of SNVs and CNVs in human diseases and traits. The ultimate aim of her research is to leverage genetic data from rare disorders to enhance population health.