Short Bio

My name is Hongbin Chen (陈宏斌), and I am currently a second-year Master’s student in Biotechnology and Engineering at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing Medical University, supervised by Prof. Jianqing Li and Assoc. Prof. Wentao Xiang. I am also a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Medical Engineering and affiliated with the Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Smart Wearable and Rehabilitation Devices.

My research interests lie in Affective Computing, with a particular focus on multimodal emotion recognition for older adults.

Let’s collaborate! I promise to reply to your email much faster than my deepest neural networks converge.

🔥 News

  • 2026.04: 🎉🎉 DiVA was accepted by JBHI!
  • 2026.03: 🎉🎉 ES-DPNet was accepted by IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing!
  • 2025.08: 🎉🎉 MOFA was accepted by PRCV 2025!

📝 Publications

†: equal contribution, * : corresponding author


JBHI 2026 DiVA
Towards Cognitive Impairment Screening in Elderly Communities with Audio-Visual Modal Disentangled Representation Learning
Rui Feng, Hongbin Chen, Yihao Yao, Liuyu Wu, Tao Liang, Wentao Xiang, Jie Li, Chu Kiong Loo, Junxiao Yu*, Wei Wang*, Jianqing Li*
Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2026
[Code & Project]

TAFFC 2026 ES-DPNet
Facial Expression Recognition for Chinese Elderly Using Edge and Semantic features Dual Path Network with Two-step Transfer Learning
Keke Shi, Hongbin Chen, Keshu Cai, Jinhui Wu, Wei Wang, Jie Li, Bin Liu, Liangcheng Qu, Kuiying Yin, Pasquale Molinaro, Giancarlo Fortino, Jianqing Li, Wentao Xiang*
IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing (TAFFC), 2026
[Code & Project]

PRCV 2025 MOFA
MOFA: Modality-Orthogonalized Fusion Architecture for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Hongbin Chen, Rui Feng, Jie Li, Wei Wang, Jianqing Li*, Wentao Xiang*
Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2025
[Code & Project]

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025.11 National Graduate Scholarship (top 2%, Master Student)
  • 2025.10 First-Class Graduate Scholarship (Master Student)
  • 2024.08 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, Jiangsu Province (only recipient from the School of Software Engineering)
  • 2024.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate

💬 Professional Services

  • Conference Reviewer: PRCV (2025,, 2026).