2024–Present
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Master of Research in Computing Sciences
Hongbin Na
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Australian AI Institute,
University of Technology Sydney
Education
2019–2023
The University of Liverpool
United Kingdom
Bachelor of Engineering in Data Science and Big Data Technology
First Class Honours
2019–2023
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
China
Bachelor of Engineering in Data Science and Big Data Technology
First Class Honours
Research Experience
2024–Present
Australian AI Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Research Assistant
2025–Present
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt
Germany
Research Assistant
Mentor:
Shaoxiong Ji
Summer 2023
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
China
Research Assistant
Mentor:
Gan Hong Seng
Awards
2025
COLING 2025 Best Short Paper Award
For "Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting"
2024
OpenAI Researcher Access Program
5000$
Publications
Journal
J1
A Scoping Review of Large Language Models for Generative Tasks in Mental Health Care
Yining Hua, Hongbin Na, Zehan Li, Fenglin Liu, Xiao Fang, David Clifton, John Torous
npj Digital Medicine 2025
npj Digital Medicine 2025
Conference
C6
A Survey of Large Language Models in Psychotherapy: Current Landscape and Future Directions
Hongbin Na*, Yining Hua*, Zimu Wang*, Tao Shen, Beibei Yu, Lilin Wang, Wei Wang, John Torous, Ling Chen
ACL 2025
ACL 2025
C5
Hazards in Daily Life? Enabling Robots to Proactively Detect and Resolve Anomalies
Zirui Song*, Guangxian Ouyang*, Meng Fang*, Hongbin Na, Zijing Shi, Zhenhao Chen, Yujie Fu, Zeyu Zhang, Shiyu Jiaying, Miao Fang, Ling Chen, Xiuying Chen
NAACL 2025
NAACL 2025
C4
Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting
Jiayuan Ma*, Hongbin Na*, Zimu Wang, Yining Hua, Yue Liu, Wei Wang, Ling Chen
COLING 2025 Best Short Paper Award
COLING 2025 Best Short Paper Award
C3
Guardians of Discourse: Evaluating LLMs on Multilingual Offensive Language Detection
Jianfei He, Lilin Wang, Jiaying Wang, Zhenyu Liu, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Wei Wang, Qi Chen
IEEE UIC 2024
IEEE UIC 2024
C2
CBT-LLM: A Chinese Large Language Model for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based Mental Health Question Answering
C1
Attention-Based Multimodal Bilinear Feature Fusion for Lung Cancer Survival Analysis
Hongbin Na*, Lilin Wang*, Xinyao Zhuang, Jianfei He, Zhenyu Liu, Zimu Wang, Hong-Seng Gan
IEEE BIBE 2023
IEEE BIBE 2023
Workshop
W1
From Posts to Timelines: Modeling Mental Health Dynamics from Social Media Timelines with Hybrid LLMs
Preprint
P4
MineAgent: Towards Remote-Sensing Mineral Exploration with Multimodal Large Language Models
P3
Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy
P2
Large Language Models in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review
Yining Hua, Fenglin Liu, Kailai Yang, Zehan Li, Hongbin Na, Yi-han Sheu, Peilin Zhou, Lauren V Moran, Sophia Ananiadou, David Clifton, Andrew Beam, John Torous
2024
2024
P1
Rethinking Human-like Translation Strategy: Integrating Drift-Diffusion Model with Large Language Models for Machine Translation
Student Mentoring
2023–Present
Jianfei He
Hong KongMS student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2023–Present
Lilin Wang
United States of AmericaMS student at University of Pennsylvania
2024–Present
Yue Liu
AustraliaMS student at University of New South Wales
2024–Present
Jiayuan Ma
AustraliaMS student at The University of Sydney
2025–Present
Haotan Guo
AustraliaMS student at The University of Sydney
Service
PC/Reviewer
ICLR 2025, ACL ARR 2025