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Australian AI Institute,
University of Technology Sydney
Education
2024–Present
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Master of Research in Computing Sciences
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
Mentors:
Ling Chen,
Tao Shen
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
Conference
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
C4
Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting
C3
Guardians of Discourse: Evaluating LLMs on Multilingual Offensive Language Detection
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
Preprint
P6
A Survey of Large Language Models in Psychotherapy: Current Landscape and Future Directions
P5
MineAgent: Towards Remote-Sensing Mineral Exploration with Multimodal Large Language Models
P4
Multi-Session Client-Centered Treatment Outcome Evaluation in Psychotherapy
P3
Applying and Evaluating Large Language Models in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review of Human-Assessed Generative Tasks
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
P1
Rethinking Human-like Translation Strategy: Integrating Drift-Diffusion Model with Large Language Models for Machine Translation
Student Mentoring
2023–2024
Jianfei He
Hong Kong
MS student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2023–Present
Lilin Wang
United States of America
MS student at University of Pennsylvania
2024–Present
Jiayuan Ma
Australia
MS student at The University of Sydney
Service
PC/Reviewer
ICLR 2025, ACL ARR 2025