Zheng Lian

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Zheng Lian

Zheng Lian (连政)

Associate Professor (IEEE/CCF Senior Member)
State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems
Tongji University

E-mail: zheng.lian.zeroqiaoba [at] gmail.com
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I am an Associate Professor (IEEE/CCF Senior Member) at State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University. My research interest primarily centers on human-centric AI and affective computing. In this field, I co-organize a series of challenges and workshops (MER@IJCAI, MRAC@ACM Multimedia, MEIJU@ICASSP), establish benchmark (MERBench) and toolbox (MERTools), and propose new tasks to enhance accuracy and reliability (EMER, OV-MER, AffectGPT, AffectGPT-R1, EmoPrefer). I also serve as Associate Editor at IEEE TAFFC, IEEE TASLP and Pattern Recognition, Area Editor at Information Fusion, Area Chair at ACM Multimedia 2025-2026 and ACL ARR 2025-2026, ACM Multimedia 2026 Dataset Co-Chair. Google Scholar citations: 5,200, h-index: 38. My short-term goal is to establish a new pathway toward more reliable and accurate emotion recognition techniques. My long-term goal is to enhance real-world human-AI interaction, ensuring robustness, trust, privacy, efficiency, and responsible deployment in areas such as healthcare, education, finance, etc.

I am recruiting visiting students, undergraduate, masters, and PhD in Tongji University.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Affective Computing, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sep 2016 – Jul 2021

  • B.S. in Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Sep 2012 – Jul 2016

Work Experience

  • Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University, Jan 2026 – Present

  • Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sep 2024 – Dec 2025

  • Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sep 2021 – Sep 2024

News

  • [May, 2025] One paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition, congratulations to Zisen.

  • [May, 2025] One paper is accepted by ACL, congratulations to Jinyang .

  • [Apr, 2026] I will co-organize MER'26 Challenge and MRAC'26 Workshop@ACM Multimedia [link]

  • [Mar, 2026] I will serve as Associate Editor at Pattern Recognition

  • [Feb, 2026] We are co-organizing the MFM-FE'26 Workshop@FG and welcome paper submissions. [link]

  • [Jan, 2026] Two papers are accepted by ICLR 2026.

  • [Jan, 2026] MERBench is accepted by IEEE TPAMI.

  • [Dec, 2025] I am happy to serve as ACM Multimedia 2026 Dataset Co-Chair.

  • [Dec, 2025] One paper is accepted by IEEE JSTSP, congratulations to Qifei.

  • [Dec, 2025] AffectGPT receives the Best Poster in the 3rd CSIG Conference on Emotional Intelligence.

  • [Nov, 2025] Three papers are accepted by AAAI 2026 (including 2 Oral papers), congratulations to Liyun and Jinyang.

  • [Oct, 2025] I will co-organize MER'25 Challenge and MRAC'25 Workshop@ACM Multimedia [link]

  • [Oct, 2025] One paper receives Best Paper Mention Award in PRCV, congratulations to Yazhou.

  • [Oct, 2025] IRNet is accepted by IEEE TPAMI.

  • [Oct, 2025] I will serve as Area Chair at ACL ARR 2025.

  • [Sep, 2025] I am selected to Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists list.

  • [Sep, 2025] Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2025, congratulations to Ziyang and Ziyu.

  • [Sep, 2025] Congratulations on successful promotion to CCF Senior Member.

  • [Sep, 2025] One paper is accepted by IEEE TAFFC, congratulations to Yazhou.

  • [Aug, 2025] Congratulations on successful promotion to IEEE Senior Member.

  • [Jul, 2025] Three papers are accepted by ACM Multimedia 2025.

  • [Jun, 2025] I will serve as Associate Editor at IEEE TASLP.

  • [May, 2025] One paper is accepted by ACL25(Finding), congratulations to Zhuofan.

  • [May, 2025] OV-MER and AffectGPT are accepted by ICML25, including one Oral (Top 1%) paper.

  • [Mar, 2025] I will serve as Area Chair at ACM Multimedia 2025.

  • [Mar, 2025] Two papers are accepted by ICASSP2025.

  • [Feb, 2025] I will serve as Area Editor at Information Fusion.

  • [Jan, 2025] I will serve as Associate Editor at IEEE TAFFC.

  • [Sep, 2024] Emotion-LLaMA is accepted by NeurIPS24, congratulations to Zebang.

  • [Aug, 2024] We organize MEIJU'25 Challenge@ICASSP [link].

  • [Jul, 2024] SVFAP is accepted by TAFFC, congratulations to Licai.

  • [Apr, 2024] We organize MER'24 Challenge@IJCAI and MRAC'24 Workshop@ACM Multimedia [link].

  • [Mar, 2024] HiCMAE is accepted by Information Fusion, congratulations to Licai.

  • [Mar, 2024] GPT-4V with Emotion is accepted by Information Fusion.

  • [Nov, 2023] Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS23.

  • [Oct, 2023] MAE-DFER is accepted by ACM MM, congratulations to Licai.

  • [Apr, 2023] We organize MER'23 Challenge and MRAC'23 Workshop@ACM Multimedia [link].

  • [May, 2023] EMT-DLFR is accepted by IEEE TAFFC, congratulations to Licai.

  • [Jan, 2023] GCNet is accepted by IEEE TPAMI.

  • [Jul, 2022] PIRNet is accepted by IEEE TNNLS.

  • [Jan, 2022] SMIN is accepted by IEEE TAFFC.

  • [Jan, 2021] CTNet is accepted by IEEE TASLP.