My name is Jiang Li (李江), and I am about to become a post-doctoral associate at New York University. 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.com.

I earned the bachelor’s degree in software engineering in July 2018 and the 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 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, CAAI-A]
  

• EmotionIC: Emotional inertia and contagion-driven dependency modeling for emotion recognition in conversation
  Yingjian Liu†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng [Co-first Author]
  SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2023 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, 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 [JCR Q1, CAAI-C]
  

• Producing considerate responses: Progressive staged training for emotional support conversation
  Guoqing Lv†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Xin Zhan, Zhigang Zeng [Co-first Author]
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024 [JCR Q1, CAAI-C]
  

• A domain generalization and residual network-based emotion recognition from physiological signals
  Junnan Li†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Xin Zhan, Zhigang Zeng [Co-first Author]
  Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS), 2023 [JCR Q1]
  

Conference Paper

• InferEM: Inferring the speaker’s intention for empathetic dialogue generation
  Guoqing Lv†, Jiang Li†, Xiaoping Wang, Zhigang Zeng [Co-first Author]
  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 [CAA-A]
  

• 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 [CAAI-0]

• Joint masked reconstruction and contrastive learning for mining interactions between proteins
  Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025 [JCR Q0, CAAI-0]

• Extracting inter-protein interactions via multitasking graph structure learning
  Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025 [JCR Q0, CAAI-0]

• 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 [Co-first Author]
  In Submission, 2025 [CAAI-0]
  

• VeMamba: Voxel-based multi-scale state space model network for event stream recognition
  Xin Zhan, Xiaoping Wang, Jiang Li, Weibin Feng, Depeng Li, Hongzhi Huang
  In Submission, 2025 [CAAI-0]

• SNN-based lightweight denoising method for event cameras
  Hongzhi Huang, Xiaoping Wang, Weibin Feng, Xin Zhan, Jiang Li
  In Submission, 2025 [JCR Q0, CAAI-0]

• ELGA-GMamba: An efficient local-to-global awareness graph mamba for object recognition with event-based cameras
  Weibin Feng, Xiaoping Wang, Jiang Li, Xin Zhan, Hongzhi Huang, Siyuan Zhang
  In Submission, 2025 [JCR Q0, CAAI-0]

• 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
  In Submission, 2024 [JCR Q0, CAAI-0]

🍚 Grant

Principal Investigator

• 2024.08 - 2025.12, Research on Humanoid Emotion Recognition for Multimodal Conversation Scenarios (2024JYCXJJ067), Innovation Institute of HUST. [Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities]

Collaborator

• 2020.01 - 2024.12, Memristor-based Humanoid Emotion Generation and Evolution and Its Application to Emotional Robotics (61936004), National Natural Science Foundation of China. [Key Program]
• 2021.12 - 2026.11, Neuroplasticity-based Efficient Learning Mechanisms for Spiking Networks and Brain-inspired Intelligent System (2021ZD0201300), Ministry of Science and Technology of China. [Major Program of 2030 Science and Technology Innovation]
• 2023.01 - 2027.12, Brain-inspired Devices and Biomimetic Memristor Circuits for Intelligent Perception of Visual, Auditory, Tactile, and Olfactory Senses (62236005), National Natural Science Foundation of China. [Key Program]
• 2024.05 - 2025.12, Research on Brain-Inspired Perception-Decision-Control Algorithms for Autonomous Driving (2024JYCXJJ068), Innovation Institute of HUST. [Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities]
• 2020.01 – 2023.12, Key Technology of Unmanned Aircraft-Boat Water-Air Collaboration and Its Application Demonstration in Sea Surface Patrol (U1913602), National Natural Science Foundation of China. [Joint Fund Integration Project]
• 2019.01 - 2022.12, Memristive Neural Networks for Brain-Inspired Memory and Their Application to Associative Memory (61876209), National Natural Science Foundation of China. [General Program]

🌏 Experience

Exchange

Poster

• 2024.07.19 - 2024.07.21, The Fourth Chinese Conference on Affective Computing (CCAC 2024, Poster), Nanchang, China
• 2023.11.17 - 2023.11.19, 2023 China Automation Congress (CAC 2023, Poster), Chongqing, China
• 2023.07.26 - 2023.07.29, The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023, Poster, Virtual), Sydney, Australia

Attendance

• 2024.11.01 - 2024.11.03, 2024 China Automation Congress (CAC 2024), Qingdao, China
• 2024.10.18 - 2024.10.20, The 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2024), Urumq, China
• 2024.07.11 - 2024.07.14, The 18th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2024), Weihai, China
• 2023.12.15 - 2023.12.17, 2023 International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing (ICNC 2023), Wuhan, China
• 2023.10.02 - 2023.10.04, The 15th Frontier Forum on Control Science and Engineering, Wuhan, China
• 2023.04.19 - 2023.04.21, 2023 Songshan Lake Science Conferences (SLSC 2023), Dongguan, China
• 2022.08.05 - 2022.08.07, 2022 Artificial Intelligence Conference of China’s Optics Valley, Wuhan, China
• 2022.08.11 - 2022.08.13, 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC 2021), Kunming, China
• 2022.07.15 - 2022.07.17, The 14th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2022), Wuhan, China
• 2021.10.15 - 2021.10.17, The first International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing (ICNC 2021), Wuhan, China

🏆 Honor and Award

• Outstanding Graduate
• Merit Student
• Merit Postgraduate
• Active Participants in Extracurricular Activities
• Outstanding Member of Communist Youth League
• National Scholarship
• Merit Student Scholarship
• Wuxi Huishan Taihu Scholarship
• Goodix Scholarship
• Zhixing Scholarship
• SCIYON Scholarship (Nominee)
• Academic Scholarship

🧑‍💻 Service

Reviewer

Journal

• 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 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)

Conference

• 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

See more here

Tailored Journal and Conference

• Journal: TAFFC (CAAI-A), 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: ACM 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: ACM 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