Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

A concise web curriculum vitae for Zebang Cheng.

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Education

Shenzhen University & Guangming Laboratory

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology

Advised by Prof. Laizhong Cui and Dr. Fei Ma.

2025–Present Shenzhen, China

Shenzhen University & Shenzhen Technology University

M.S. in Computer Science

Advised by Prof. Xiaojiang Peng.

2022–2025 Shenzhen, China

China West Normal University

B.S. in Software Engineering

2017–2021 Nanchong, China

Research Interests

Multimodal Large Language Models, Affective Computing, Multimodal Emotion Understanding and Reasoning, Multimodal Agents.

Selected Publications

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  1. MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models ICLR 2026

    Fan Zhang*, Zebang Cheng*, Chong Deng*, Haoxuan Li, Zheng Lian, Qian Chen, Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, Yi-Fan Zhang, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Xian Wu, Kun Wang, Xiangang Li, Jieping Ye, Pheng-Ann Heng

    * Equal contribution.

    Paper Project

  2. AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models ICML 2025

    Zheng Lian, Haoyu Chen, Lan Chen, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun, Yong Ren, Zebang Cheng, Bin Liu, Rui Liu, Xiaojiang Peng, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao

    Oral presentation.

    Paper Code

  3. Emotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning NeurIPS 2024

    Zebang Cheng*, Zhi-Qi Cheng*, Jun-Yan He, Jingdong Sun, Kai Wang, Yuxiang Lin, Zheng Lian, Xiaojiang Peng, Alexander Hauptmann

    * Equal contribution.

    Paper Project Code

  4. MIPS at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Multimodal Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations with Multimodal Language Models SemEval 2024

    Zebang Cheng*, Fuqiang Niu*, Yuxiang Lin, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Bowen Zhang, Xiaojiang Peng

    * Equal contribution. 3rd place in the Multimodal Emotion-Cause Analysis Challenge.

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  5. SZTU-CMU at MER2024: Improving Emotion-LLaMA with Conv-Attention for Multimodal Emotion Recognition MRAC at ACM Multimedia 2024

    Zebang Cheng*, Shuyuan Tu*, Dawei Huang*, Minghan Li, Xiaojiang Peng, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Alexander G. Hauptmann

    * Equal contribution. 1st place in MER-NOISE and 3rd place in the Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge.

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  6. Semi-Supervised Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Expression MAE ACM Multimedia 2023

    Zebang Cheng, Yuxiang Lin, Zhaoru Chen, Xiang Li, Shuyi Mao, Fan Zhang, Daijun Ding, Bowen Zhang, Xiaojiang Peng

    2nd place in the ACM Multimedia 2023 Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge.

    Paper

Honors & Awards

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Professional Activities