My name is Jiang Li (李江), and I am about to become a post-doctoral associate at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. My research interests encompass affective computing (AC), multimodal learning (MML), graph machine learning (GML), and computational biology (CB). If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at lijfrank [AT] outlook [DOT] com.

I earned a bachelor’s degree in software engineering in July 2018 and a master’s degree in computer technology in June 2021. Thereafter, I advanced my studies by pursuing a doctoral degree in intelligent science and technology, which I successfully completed in September 2025. I harbor great enthusiasm for scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence and have thus far contributed over 10 papers to academic journals or conferences.

🔥 News

📰 Publication

† : Equal Contribution

Journal Paper

• GraphCFC: A directed graph based cross-modal feature complementation approach for multimodal conversational emotion recognition
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Guoqing Lv, Zhigang Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023 [CAAI-A]
  

• GA2MIF: Graph and attention based two-stage multi-source information fusion for conversational emotion detection
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Guoqing Lv, Zhigang Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC), 2023 [CAAI-A]
  

• CFN-ESA: A cross-modal fusion network with emotion-shift awareness for dialogue emotion recognition
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Yingjian Liu, Zhigang Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC), 2024 [CAAI-A]
  

• Tracing intricate cues in dialogue: Joint graph structure and sentiment dynamics for multimodal emotion recognition
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025 [CAAI-A]
  

• EmotionIC: Emotional inertia and contagion-driven dependency modeling for emotion recognition in conversation
  Yingjian Liu†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng
  SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2023 [CAAI-A]
  

• GraphMFT: A graph network based multimodal fusion technique for emotion recognition in conversation
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Guoqing Lv, Zhigang Zeng
  Neurocomputing (NEUCOM), 2023 [CAAI-B]
  

• ERNetCL: A novel emotion recognition network in textual conversation based on curriculum learning strategy
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Yingjian Liu, Zhigang Zeng
  Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2024 [CAAI-B]
  

• A dual-stream recurrence-attention network with global–local awareness for emotion recognition in textual dialog
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), 2023 [CAAI-C]
  

• Producing considerate responses: Progressive staged training for emotional support conversation
  Guoqing Lv†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Xin Zhan, Zhigang Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024 [CAAI-C]
  

• A domain generalization and residual network-based emotion recognition from physiological signals
  Junnan Li†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Xin Zhan, Zhigang Zeng
  Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS), 2023
  

• A bio-inspired tactile-olfactory fusion perception system based on memristive spiking neural network
  Chao Yang, Xiaoping Wang, Zhanfei Chen, Jiang Li, Nan Qin, Tingwen Huang, Zhigang Zeng
  SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2025 [CAAI-A]

Conference Paper

• InferEM: Inferring the speaker’s intention for empathetic dialogue generation
  Guoqing Lv†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng
  The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), 26-29 July 2023, Sydney, Australia [CAAI-B]
  

• A spatio-temporal scale based affective neural network for emotion detection in conversation
  Jiang Li, Xiaoping Wang, Shanglin Lei, Zhigang Zeng
  2023 China Automation Congress (CAC 2023), 17-19 November 2023, Chongqing, China
  

• HAFUNet: A hierarchical attention fusion network for monocular depth estimation integrating event and frame data
  Siyuan Zhang, Xiaoping Wang, Jiang Li, Weibin Feng, Xin Zhan, Hongzhi Huang
  The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2025), 27-31 October 2025, Dublin, Ireland [CAAI-A]

• Watch the speakers: A hybrid continuous attribution network for emotion recognition in conversation with emotion disentanglement
  Shanglin Lei, Xiaoping Wang, Guanting Dong, Jiang Li, Zhigang Zeng
  The 35th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2023), 6-8 November 2023, Atlanta, USA [CAAI-C]
  

Other Paper

• Hypergraph missing modality learning for conversational affect detection
  Jiang Li
  In Preparation, 2025

• Joint masked reconstruction and contrastive learning for mining interactions between proteins
  Jiang Li, Siyuan Zhang, Weibin Feng, Xiaoping Wang
  In Submission, 2025

• Extracting inter-protein interactions via multitasking graph structure learning
  Jiang Li, Weibin Feng, Siyuan Zhang, Xiaoping Wang
  In Submission, 2025

• Large, complex, and realistic safety clothing and helmet detection: Dataset and method
  Fusheng Yu†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Depeng Li, Xin Zhan, Shaojin Wu, Junjie Zhang
  In Submission, 2025
  

• VeMamba: Voxel-based multi-scale state space model network for event stream recognition
  Xin Zhan, Xiaoping Wang, Weibin Feng, Depeng Li, Hongzhi Huang, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025

• SNN-based lightweight denoising method for event cameras
  Hongzhi Huang, Xiaoping Wang, Weibin Feng, Xin Zhan, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025

• ELGA-GMamba: An efficient local-to-global awareness graph mamba for object recognition with event-based cameras
  Weibin Feng, Xiaoping Wang, Xin Zhan, Hongzhi Huang, Siyuan Zhang, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025

• SDAUT: Sparse-adaptive deformable attention U-Net Transformer for event-frame depth estimation
  Siyuan Zhang, Xiaoping Wang, Weibin Feng, Honggang Yang, Hongzhi Huang, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025

• AGFI-Net: Adaptive graph feature interaction network for event-based action recognition
  Weibin Feng, Xiaoping Wang, Siyuan Zhang, Hongzhi Huang, Xin Zhan, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025

🍚 Grant

Director

• Research on Humanoid Emotion Recognition for Multimodal Conversation Scenarios, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Innovation Institute of HUST, 2024.08 - 2025.12

Collaborator

• Memristor-based Humanoid Emotion Generation and Evolution and Its Application to Emotional Robotics, Key Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020.01 - 2024.12

• Neuroplasticity-based Efficient Learning Mechanisms for Spiking Networks and Brain-inspired Intelligent System, Major Program of 2030 Science and Technology Innovation, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2021.12 - 2026.11

• Brain-inspired Devices and Biomimetic Memristor Circuits for Intelligent Perception of Visual, Auditory, Tactile, and Olfactory Senses, Key Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023.01 - 2027.12

• Research on Brain-Inspired Perception-Decision-Control Algorithms for Autonomous Driving, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Innovation Institute of HUST, 2024.08 - 2025.12

• Key Technology of Unmanned Aircraft-Boat Water-Air Collaboration and Its Application Demonstration in Sea Surface Patrol, Joint Fund Project Integration Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020.01 - 2023.12

• Memristive Neural Networks for Brain-Inspired Memory and Their Application to Associative Memory, General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019.01 - 2022.12

🌏 Experience

Work

• Post-doctoral Associate, 2026.01 – Present
  Division of Science, New York University (NYU)

• Research Assistant, 2025.10 - 2025.12
  Division of Science, New York University (NYU)

Exchange

• 2024 China Automation Congress (CAC 2024), Qingdao, China, 2024.11.01 - 2024.11.03

• The Fourth Chinese Conference on Affective Computing (CCAC 2024, Poster), Nanchang, China, 2024.07.19 - 2024.07.21

• The 18th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2024), Weihai, China, 2024.07.11 - 2024.07.14

• 2023 International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing (ICNC 2023), Wuhan, China, 2023.12.15 - 2023.12.17

• 2023 China Automation Congress (CAC 2023, Poster), Chongqing, China, 2023.11.17 - 2023.11.19

• The 15th Frontier Forum on Control Science and Engineering, Wuhan, China, 2023.10.02 - 2023.10.04

• The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023, Poster, Virtual), Sydney, Australia, 2023.07.26 - 2023.07.29

• 2023 Songshan Lake Science Conferences (SLSC 2023), Dongguan, China, 2023.04.19 - 2023.04.21

• 2022 Artificial Intelligence Conference of China’s Optics Valley, Wuhan, China, 2022.08.05 - 2022.08.07

• 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC 2021), Kunming, China, 2022.08.11 - 2022.08.13

• The 14th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2022), Wuhan, China, 2022.07.15 - 2022.07.17

• The First International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing (ICNC 2021), Wuhan, China, 2021.10.15 - 2021.10.17

🏆 Honor and Award

Honor

• Outstanding Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2025

• Merit Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2024

• Merit Postgraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2023

• Active Participants in Extracurricular Activities, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2022

• Outstanding Member of Communist Youth League, Chongqing University (CQU), 2019/2020

Award

• National Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2024

• Merit Student Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2024

• Wuxi Huishan Taihu Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2024

• Goodix Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2023

• Zhixing Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2022/2023

• SCIYON Scholarship (Nominee), Chongqing University (CQU), 2020

• Academic Scholarship, Chongqing University (CQU)/Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 2018 - 2024

🧑‍💻 Service

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS); IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Pattern Recognition (PR); IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI); ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM); ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD); International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI); Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS); Neurocomputing (NEUCOM); Information Sciences (INS); Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI); Pattern Recognition Letter (PRL)

• The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026); 2025 ACL Rolling Review (ARR 2025); The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025); 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025); 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025); The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024); 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023)

📦 Resource

List in Affective Computing

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• Tailored Journal and Conference
  Journal: TAFFC, a top-tier journal in the field;
  Conference: ACII, a top-tier conference, but with limited recognition

• NLP-oriented Affective Computing
  Journal: TASLP, TACL, CL
  Conference: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGKDD, SIGIR, WWW

• CV-oriented Affective Computing
  Journal: TIP, IJCV, TPAMI
  Conference: ECCV, CVPR, ICCV

• Multimodal Affective Computing
  Journal: TMM, INFFUS
  Conference: MM
  For multimodal research, journals and conferences in NLP and CV can also be considered

• General Journal and Conference
  Journal: AIJ, TNNLS, TCYB, TOIS, SCIS, TOCHI, IJHCS
  Conference: AAAI, IJCAI, CHI

• Physiological Signal-oriented Affective Computing
  Journal: AIJ, TNNLS, TCYB, TOIS, SCIS, TOCHI, IJHCS
  Conference: AAAI, IJCAI, CHI
  Journal: TMM, INFFUS
  Conference: MM

Rank List

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by CAAI (Jiang Li)

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by CAAI

• Extension of CAAI Rank Display (Jiang Li)

• List of Academic Journals Recommended by Clarivate (JCR)

• List of Academic Conferences Recommended by ICORE (CORE)

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by HUST-AIA

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by THU-CS

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by CCF

• List of Academic Journals and Conferences Recommended by CCF (Jiang Li)

• Deadline of Academic Conferences (Version 1 - 2) Recommended by CCF

Material

• Overview of Papers Related to Various Tasks in Affective Computing

• List of Journals and Conferences in Affective Computing

• How to Seek Out Papers in Computer Science

• Advice on Research and Writing

• Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science

• Specification for Naming of Scientific Research Base