Short Bio

My name is Hongbin Chen (陈宏斌). I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Clinical Medical Engineering at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing Medical University, supervised by Prof. Jianqing Li and Assoc. Prof. Wentao Xiang. Before starting my Ph.D. study, I was a Master’s student in Biotechnology and Engineering at the same school. I am affiliated with the Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Smart Wearable and Rehabilitation Devices. I am also a member of CARELab, where our research focuses on cognitive and affective computing for rehabilitation and embodied intelligence. You are welcome to explore our research.

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

📝 Publications

†: equal contribution, * : corresponding author

Preprint 2026

MECO: A Multimodal Dataset for Emotion and Cognitive Understanding in Older Adults

Hongbin Chen, Jie Li, Wei Wang, Siyang Song, Xiao Gu, Jianqing Li*, Wentao Xiang*

Preprint

[Code & Project]

JBHI 2026

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

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: 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]

🎤 Talks

• 2026.05 Chinese Biomedical Engineering Conference, Suzhou. Oral Presentation.
• 2026.04 Sharing on “My Research Journey”, Future Society. Invited Talk.
• 2025.06 Chinese Biomedical Engineering Conference, Suzhou. Oral Presentation.
• 2025.03 Forum on Biological Health and Smart Healthcare Development, Shenzhen. Oral Presentation.
• 2025.01 Jiangsu Postgraduate Academic Innovation Forum on Medical and Engineering Intersection, Nanjing. Oral Presentation.
• 2024.11 Sharing on “My Graduate Study and Research Experience”, Sisyphus Vision Laboratory. Invited Talk.

🎖 Honors and Awards

🏆 Academic Awards

• 2026.05 The Intelligent Human-Machine-Environment Engineering Conference, Excellent Paper Award.
• 2025.12 Jiangsu Graduate Academic Innovation Forum on Medical-Engineering Integration, Excellent Poster Award.
• 2025.01 Jiangsu Graduate Academic Innovation Forum on Medical-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research, Excellent Paper Award.

🎓 Scholarships and Honors

• 2026.04 Merit Student of Nanjing Medical University
• 2025.11 National Graduate Scholarship (Top 2%, Master’s Student)
• 2025.10 First-Class Graduate Scholarship (Master’s 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).

Memberships

• Student Member, Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS)
• Student Member, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
• Student Member, Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBME)
• Student Member, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)