I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, China. My research focuses on multimodal artificial intelligence, especially intelligent perception, cognitive and affective computing, LLM-based agents, and AI in education.
I received my Ph.D. in 2022 and my B.Sc. in 2017, both from Beihang University, China. During my Ph.D., I was affiliated with the School of Computer Science and Engineering (Admire Group) and the Shen Yuan Honors College (an elite program), under the supervision of Prof. Wenjun Wu.
I am always looking for motivated Master's students, undergraduates, and research interns at the College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology (Double First-Class and Project 211). If you are interested, please email me your CV and representative publications (if any).
News
- [Featured] Appointed as Young Affiliate of the Editorial Board of Computer Engineering (in Chinese). Submissions are welcome.
- [Featured] Appointed as Young Affiliate of the Editorial Board of Data Research and Applications. Submissions are welcome.
- [Featured] Call for Papers: Applied Sciences — Special Issue “Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts, 2nd Edition”. Deadline: 31 October 2026 (extended from 31 March 2026).
- One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
- Selected for the Beijing High-tech Innovation Plan Youth Talent Support Project.
- One paper accepted by Neurocomputing.
- One paper accepted by Ad Hoc Networks.
- Two papers accepted by the 2026 International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control (ICGNC 2026).
- One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
- Received funding from the Beijing Research Ward Excellent Clinical Research Project.
- One paper accepted by Computer Engineering (in Chinese).
- One paper accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI).
- One paper accepted by Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
- One paper accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning (ICICML).
- One paper accepted by Scientific Reports.
- One paper accepted by International Journal of Intelligent Networks (IJIN).
- One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE).
- Received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
- One paper accepted by Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
- One paper accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC).
- Received the Second Prize of the Invention and Entrepreneurship Award from the China Association of Inventions.
- One paper accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Information Technology (AINIT).
- One paper accepted by Scientific Reports.
- One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition.
- Received funding from the Beijing Natural Science Foundation.
- One paper accepted by Scientific Reports.
- One paper accepted by CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction.
- Selected as an Executive Member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Robot, China Computer Federation (CCF TCIR).
- One paper accepted by Neurocomputing.
- One paper accepted by Journal of Neural Engineering (JNE).
- One paper accepted by IJCAI 2024.
- One paper accepted by Applied Sciences.
- One paper accepted by ICDE 2024.
- Two papers accepted by Applied Sciences.
- Received funding from the Science and Technology Project of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC).
- One paper accepted by the 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).
- Call for Papers: Applied Sciences — Special Issue “Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts”. Deadline: 30 June 2025.
- One paper accepted by the IEEE 48th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN).
- Received funding from the Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation.
- One paper accepted by AAAI 2023.
- Received funding from the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment.
- One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
- Received the Ph.D. degree with a certificate of honor from Beihang University.
- One paper accepted by Scientific Reports.
- One paper accepted by Scientific Reports.
Selected Publications
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CLMER: A Framework for Contrastive Learning-Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition
IEEE TNNLS, 2026
@article{niu2026clmer, title={CLMER: A Framework for Contrastive Learning-Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition}, author={Niu, Shuang and He, Jian and Liang, Yu and Hu, Xiyuan and Mumtaz, Shahid and Wang, Kaixin and Peng, Tianhao and Zhang, Chenlong and Wang, Zaitian}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems}, year={2026}, publisher={IEEE} } -
CLGT: A Graph Transformer for Student Performance Prediction in Collaborative Learning
AAAI, 2023
@inproceedings{peng2023clgt, title={CLGT: A graph transformer for student performance prediction in collaborative learning}, author={Peng, Tianhao and Liang, Yu and Wu, Wenjun and Ren, Jian and Zhao, Pengrui and Pu, Yanjun}, booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence}, volume={37}, number={13}, pages={15947--15954}, year={2023} } -
CLDAE: A Two-Stage EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Framework Combining Contrastive Learning and Dual-Attention Encoder
IEEE JBHI, 2026
@article{cao2026cldae, title={CLDAE: A Two Stage EEG-based Emotion Recognition Framework Combining Contrastive Learning and Dual-Attention Encoder}, author={Cao, Rongqi and He, Jian and Liang, Yu and Hu, Xiyuan and Peng, Tianhao and Wu, Wenjun and Niu, Shuang and Mumtaz, Shahid}, journal={IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics}, year={2026}, publisher={IEEE} } -
Milmer: A Framework for Multiple Instance Learning Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Neurocomputing, 2026
@article{wang2026milmer, title={Milmer: a framework for multiple instance learning based multimodal emotion recognition}, author={Wang, Zaitian and He, Jian and Liang, Yu and Hu, Xiyuan and Peng, Tianhao and Wang, Kaixin and Wang, Jiakai and Zhang, Chenlong and Zhang, Weili and Niu, Shuang and others}, journal={Neurocomputing}, pages={134368}, year={2026}, publisher={Elsevier} } -
FetchEEG: A Hybrid Approach Combining Feature Extraction and Temporal-Channel Joint Attention for EEG-Based Emotion Classification
JNE, 2024
@article{liang2024fetcheeg, title={FetchEEG: a hybrid approach combining feature extraction and temporal-channel joint attention for EEG-based emotion classification}, author={Liang, Yu and Zhang, Chenlong and An, Shan and Wang, Zaitian and Shi, Kaize and Peng, Tianhao and Ma, Yuqing and Xie, Xiaoyang and He, Jian and Zheng, Kun}, journal={Journal of Neural Engineering}, year={2024}, publisher={IOP Publishing} }
✉ Corresponding author. For a complete list of publications, please see my Google Scholar profile.
Students
Master's Students
- 2026 Ziheng Wang, Yudong Zhao
- 2025 Jiayan Ma (1 paper accepted by Computer Engineering, in Chinese), Jiawei Wu, Xiao Li, Liwen Tian
- 2024 Yongbin Wang (1 paper accepted by Scientific Reports), Rongqi Cao† (1 paper accepted by IEEE JBHI)
Alumni
- Shuang Niu†
- Chenlong Zhang†
- Zaitian Wang†
- Lexin Yang
- Shuyi Sun
- Ziteng Zhang
- Zelong Li
† Co-supervised.
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Funding and Projects
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No. 62507001, 2026.01 – 2028.12
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation, No. 4254091, 2025.01 – 2026.12
- Beijing Research Ward Excellent Clinical Research Project, No. BRWEP2024Z014170101, 2026.04 – 2027.10
- Science and Technology Project of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), No. 5500-202322539A-3-2-ZN, 2023.10 – 2025.12
- Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation, No. 2023-ZZ-97, 2023.05 – 2024.11
- Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment (SKLSD), No. SKLSDE-2022KF-10, 2022.11 – 2023.10
Professional Services
- Young Council Member of the Beijing Interdisciplinary Science Society.
- Executive Member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Robot, China Computer Federation (CCF TCIR).
- Young Affiliate of the Editorial Boards of Computer Engineering (in Chinese) and Data Research and Applications.
- Guest Editor of Applied Sciences.
- PC member / Reviewer for AAAI, IJCAI, ICCV, KDD, DSAA, FIE, and others.
- Journal reviewer for Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Information Sciences, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Chinese Journal of Computers (in Chinese), and others.
Teaching
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Software Requirement Analysis and Modeling; Freshmen Seminar — Beijing University of Technology.
- C Language Programming; Scientific Writing; MOOC teaching assistant — Beihang University.