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 Summer
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
China
Research Assistant
Mentor:
Jie Fu
2025–Present
ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku
Finland
Research Assistant
Mentor:
Shaoxiong Ji
Summer 2023
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
China
Research Assistant
Mentor:
Gan Hong Seng
Awards
2026
Label Studio Academic Program
One-year HumanSignal License
2025
Label Studio Academic Program
One-year HumanSignal License
2025
COLING 2025 Best Short Paper Award
For "Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting"
2024
OpenAI Researcher Access Program
5000$
Publications
Journal
J3
Charting the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Mental Health Chatbots from Rule-based Systems to Large Language Models: A Systematic Review
Yining Hua, Steve Siddals, Zilin Ma, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Winna Xia, Christine Hau, Hongbin Na, Matthew Flathers, Jake Linardon, Cyrus Ayubcha, John Torous
World Psychiatry 2025
World Psychiatry 2025
J2
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
J1
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
Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry 2025
Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry 2025
Conference
C8
Lost in Pronunciation: Detecting Chinese Offensive Language Disguised by Phonetic Cloaking Replacement
Haotan Guo*, Jianfei He*, jiayuan Ma*, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Qi Chen, Wei Wang, Zijing Shi, Tao Shen, Ling Chen
EMNLP 2025
EMNLP 2025
C7
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
C6
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
C5
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
C4
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
C3
Thinker-DDM: Modeling Deliberation for Machine Translation with a Drift-Diffusion Process
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
P2
MineAgent: Towards Remote-Sensing Mineral Exploration with Multimodal Large Language Models
P1
Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy
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
2024–2025
Yue Liu
AustraliaMS student at University of New South Wales
2024–2025
Jiayuan Ma
AustraliaMS student at The University of Sydney
2025–Present
Haotan Guo
AustraliaMS student at The University of Sydney
Service
Organizer
BioNLP@ACL 2026 Shared Task
Reviewer
ICLR 2025-2026, ACL 2025-2026, EMNLP 2025, AACL 2025, Psychiatry Research