Rongfei Chen (Murphy Chen)

Rongfei Chen (Murphy Chen)

joint Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)

I am currently a joint postdoctoral researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), working under the supervision of Professor Shaohua Kevin Zhou and Assistant Professor Wei Zhang.

My research investigates how embodied agents can understand human emotions and social intentions, and accordingly make socially appropriate and trustworthy decisions in interaction and collaboration. My current research interests include:

Multimodal psychological health assessment: developing multimodal frameworks for the early detection and assessment of affective disorders (e.g., depression) through the analysis of verbal and nonverbal behavioral signals; Embodied navigation in social environments: integrating visual, auditory, and environmental semantic information to equip intelligent agents with socially aware navigation capabilities in human-centered scenarios; Natural human–computer interaction: designing adaptive human behavior understanding and response systems with capabilities for proactive perception, empathetic interaction, and contextual adaptation. To date, I have published 4 papers () at top-tier AI conferences and journals (e.g., ICME, TCSVT, KBS, and ESWA).

🔥 News

  • 2022.02:  🎉🎉 Our paper on domain-specific domain-attribute constrained analysis in multimodal affective computing has been accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications..
  • 2022.02:  🎉🎉 Our paper on multimodal sentiment analysis with missing-modality has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICME 2026.
  • 2026.03: 🎉🎉 Our paper on multimodal sentiment analysis has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICIC 2026.
  • 2026.03: 🎉🎉 Our research paper on fairness and bias associated with sensitive attributes in multimodal sentiment analysis has been accepted for publication in Applied Sciences.
  • 2024.08: 🎉🎉 Our research paper on mutlimodal infomation fusion in multimodal sentiment analysis has been accepted for publication in Knowledge-based Systems.
  • 2022.08: 🎉🎉 Our research paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

📝 Publications

ESWA
ESWA2026

Understanding Domain-Specific Attribute Constraints in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis via Ensemble Multimodal Large Language Models with Structured Multistage Prompts

Rongfei Chen, Junlong Tong, Xinming Zhang, Tingting Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Wei Zhang

Project

  • Domain-Specific Atrribute Constraints in Multimodal Affective Computing.
  • Evaluation Before Generation: A Paradigm for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Missing Modalities [PDF] [CODE], Rongfei Chen, Tingting Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Wei Zhang, ICME 2026

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • No

📖 Educations and Employment

  • 2024.09 - 2026.09 (now), Working as a postdoctoral researcher at CIST, EIT.
  • 2020.09 - 2024.06, PhD, Shanghai University.