Xu Ruifeng
Professor
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SHENZHEN
1. Educational Background (in reverse chronological order):
- 2002-2006 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Computer Science, Ph.D. Degree (Full-time)
- 1998-2001 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Computer Science, M.Phil. Degree (Full-time)
- 1991-1995 Harbin Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Technology, B.Eng. Degree (Full-time)
2. Work Experience (in reverse chronological order):
- 2024.10–Present: School of Intelligent Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Professor
- 2017.10–2024.10: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
- 2009.11–2016.01: School of Computer Science and Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Associate Professor
- 2008.10–2009.10: Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, Research Fellow
- 2008.04–2008.10: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Research Associate
- 2006.10–2008.03: Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Research Associate
- 2006.01–2006.09: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Postdoctoral Fellow
Xu Ruifeng, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of the College of Artificial Intelligence at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He received his Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on natural language processing, affective computing, large language models, and social media analysis. He has hosted 6 projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China and has published over 300 papers in top journals and conferences such as IEEE TAFFC and ICLR. Cooperation in the areas of large language models, affective computing, and social artificial intelligence, and applications from outstanding students are welcome.
Representative Publications (past 5-10 years, in order of impact):
Bingbing Wang, Jingjie Lin, Zhixin Bai, Zihan Wang, Shengzhe Sun, Zhengda Jin, Zhiyuan Wen, Geng Tu, Jing Li, Erik Cambria, Ruifeng Xu*. Internet Meme on Social Media: A Comprehensive Review and New Perspectives. Information Fusion, 2025, 104102, (SCI 1区DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2025.104102)
Qianlong Wang, Zhiyuan Wen, Keyang Ding, Bin Liang, Ruifeng Xu*. Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis via Disentangled Representation and Prototypical Learning. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2025. 16(1): 264-276(SCI 1区 DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3431946)
Geng Tu, Ran Jing, Bin Liang, Yue Yu, Min Yang, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu*. Generalizing to Unseen Speakers: Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations with Speaker Generalization. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2025.16(4):3043-3054(SCI 1区,DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3566059)
Xiucheng Lyu, Runcong Zhao, Jiazheng Li, Bin Liang, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu*. Unsupervised Fact-Checking via Recursively Verifying Presuppositions. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 33: 2189-2199, 2025 (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3572768)
Han Zhang, Yu Lei, Bin Liang, Hui Wang, Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu*. An Orthogonality-based Dual-memory Framework for Continual Text Classification. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 33:2444-2456, 2025 (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3577396)
Yang Sun, Caihua Yang, Jianzhu Bao, Bin Liang, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu*. Dynamic Logic Reasoning Model for Argumentation Relation Classification. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 33: 2151-2162, 2025 (SCI 1区,DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3574884)
Bin Liang, Bingbing Wang, Zhixin Bai, Qiwei Lang, Mingwei Sun, Kaiheng Hou, Lanjun Zhou, Ruifeng Xu*, Kam-Fai Wong. Reply with Sticker: New Dataset and Model for Sticker Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 33: 3099-3110, 2025 (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3587415)
Jianzhu Bao, Mohan Jing, Kuicai Dong, Aixin Sun, Yang Sun, Ruifeng Xu*. UniASA: A Unified Generative Framework for Argument Structure Analysis. Computational Linguistics, 2025. (SCI 1区,DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00553)
Bin Liang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Erik Cambria, Ruifeng Xu*. Fusion and Discrimination: A Multimodal Graph Contrastive Learning Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 15(4), 1874-1888, 2024(SCI IF 1区,DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3380375)
Keyang Ding, Chuang Fan, Yiwen Ding, Qianlong Wang, Zhiyuan Wen, Jing Li, Ruifeng Xu*. LCSEP: A Large-Scale Chinese Dataset for Social Emotion Prediction to Online Trending Topics. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2024. 11(3):3362-3375 (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2023.3334296)
Geng Tu, Bing Liang, Dazhi Jiang,. Sentiment- Emotion- and Context-guided Knowledge Selection Framework for Emotion Recognition in Conversations. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2023, 14(3): 1803-1816. (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3223517)
Bin Liang, Xiang Li, Lin Gui, Chaofa Yuan, Yulan He, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu*. Few-Shot Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis via Meta-Learning. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 2023, 41(1): 22, 1–31. (SCI 1区, DOI: 10.1145/3529954)
Qianlong Wang, Hongling Xu, Zhiyuan Wen, Bin Liang, Min Yang, Bing Qin, and Ruifeng Xu*. Image-to-Text Conversion and Aspect-Oriented Filtration for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2023. (SCI 一区 DOI:10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3333200)
Bin Liang, Rongdi Yin, Jiachen Du, Lin Gui, Yulan He, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu*. Embedding Refinement Framework for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2023. 14(1): 279-293(SCI 1区,DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3071388
Bin Liang, Shiwei Chen, Lin Gui, Hui Wang, Yue Yu, Ruifeng Xu*, Kam-Fai Wong*. Centrality-guided Pre-training for Graph. Proceedingds of The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)
Han Zhang, Yu Lei, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Yulan He, Hui Wang, Ruifeng Xu*. CPPO: Continual Learning for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024)
Patents:
Emoji Retrieval Method, Electronic Device, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium, ZL202410559309.8, 2025, First Inventor
Argumentative Text Mining Method, Apparatus, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium, ZL202211545137.6, 2025, First Inventor
Sentiment Analysis Model Training Method, Sentiment Analysis Method, Device, and Storage Medium, ZL202211506938, 2025, First Inventor
Text Generation Method, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium, ZL202211440697.5, 2025, First Inventor
Text Processing Method, Apparatus, and Storage Medium, ZL202211119994.X, 2025, First Inventor
Relation Extraction Method, Device, and Storage Medium, ZL202210989377.9, 2025, First Inventor
Training Method for Dialogue Emotion Recognition Model, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium, ZL202210821444.6, 2025, First Inventor
Causal Relation Identification Method for Events, Device, and Storage Medium, ZL2022107933752.2, 2025, First Inventor
Research Awards:
2023: Second Class Science and Technology Progress Award of Guangdong Province, People's Government of Guangdong Province, Forth Completed Person
2022: First Cass Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Second Completed Person
2019: Second Class Science and Technology Progress Award of HeilongJiang Province, People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, Forth Completed Person
2017: Second Class Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education of China, Second Completed Person