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. Additionally, I am a member of EmoLab, and welcome you 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

• 2026.04 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).