Shi FENG 冯时 Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor Department of Computer Science Northeastern University, Shenyang, China Email: fengshi [at] cse.neu.edu.cn Office: Room B209, Information Building, Northeastern University, China Address: No.195 Chuangxin Road, Hunnan District, Shenyang, China, 110169 I am a member of NEU Data Mining group. NEU DM group belongs to Data Science and Big Data Technology Group led by professor Ge Yu（于戈）.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Large Language Models
• Sentiment Analysis
• Dialogue System

TEACHING

• Operation System
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Social Network and Social Media Analysis

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• Mar, 2014 - May, 2014. Visiting Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
• Jun, 2009 - Jun, 2010. Research Assistant, Dept. of System Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
• Mar, 2007 - Jan, 2011. Ph.D, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China.
• Sep, 2004 - Mar, 2007. Graduate, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China.
• Sep, 2000 - Mar, 2004. Undergraduate, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China.

RESEARCH FUNDINGS

• PI. Research on Key Techniques of User-centered Emotion Elicitation and Regulation Dialogue Generation. 2023-2026, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
• PI. Study on Human-Machine Conversation Text Generation Technique for Emotional Interaction. 2019-2022, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
• Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Interpretable Emotion-Aware Dialogue Generation. 2012-2025, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
• PI. Research on Key Techniques of Opinion Mining for Real Time Public Opinion Monitoring in Microblogging Sphere. 2012-2014. National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
• PI. Research on Real Time Sentiment Analysis for Massive Social Media Data. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China. 2012-2013.
• PI. Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis for Social Streams. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China. 2014-2015.
• Project member (rank 2nd). Diversified Social Relation Active Learning Based on Social Media Mining. 2018-2021, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
• Project member (rank 2nd). Multi-level Social Media Resource Recommendation based on Generalized Content Analysis, 2014-2017, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

For more information about recent achievements of our group, please refer to achievement 2021 and achievement 2025.

For codes and datasets, please refer to this website.

• Ming Wang, Daling Wang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang: T-COL: Generating Counterfactual Explanations for General User Preferences on Variable Machine Learning Systems. Accepted by Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (CCF B)
• Xingle Xu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiaocui Yang: Enhancing Zero-shot Emotion Perception in Conversation through the Internal-to-External Chain-of-Thought. Accepted by DASFAA 2025 (CCF B)
• Shiyi Mu, Yongkang Liu, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: MEKiT: Multi-source Heterogeneous Knowledge Injection Method via Instruction Tuning for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction. Accepted by CogSCI 2025 (CCF B)
• Lin Wang , Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang: Generative Emotion Cause Explanation in Multimodal Conversations. Accepted by ICMR 2025 (CCF B)
• Jihui Yan, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Yinzhi Zhao: SemanticCamo: Jailbreaking Large Language Models through Semantic Camouflage. Accepted by ACL 2025 findings (CCF A)
• Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Lin Wu, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yuxin Chen, Bixuan Wang, Yifei Zhang: AnnaAgent: Dynamic Evolution Agent System with Multi-Session Memory for Realistic Seeker Simulation. Accepted by ACL 2025 findings (CCF A)
• Fanheng Kong, Jingyuan Zhang, Hongzhi Zhang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Linhao Yu, Xingguang Ji, Yu Tian, Qi Wang, Fuzheng Zhang: TUNA: Comprehensive Fine-grained Temporal Understanding Evaluation on Dense Dynamic Videos. Accepted by ACL 2025 (CCF A)
• Dexian Cai, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Soujanya Poria: Pixel-Level Reasoning Segmentation via Multi-turn Conversations. Accepted by ACL 2025 (CCF A)
• Zihan Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: Muse: A Multimodal Conversational Recommendation Dataset with Scenario-Grounded User Profiles. Accepted by ACL 2025 findings. (CCF A)
• Jiayang Yu, Yihang Zhang, Bin Wang, Peiqin Lin, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng: SSMLoRA: Enhancing Low-Rank Adaptation with State Space Model. NAACL 2025: 4493-4506 (CCF B)
• Zihan Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Gang Wu, Yifei Zhang, Han Zhao, Ge Yu: Diversity-enhanced conversational recommendation via multi-agent reinforcement learning. Knowledge and Information Systems (2025) (CCF B)
• Xingle Xu, Shi Feng, Yuan Cui, Yifei Zhang, Daling Wang: AC-EIC: addressee-centered emotion inference in conversations. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2025)
• Xiaocui Yang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Daling Wang, Yang Li, Qi Sun, Yifei Zhang, Xiaoming Fu, Soujanya Poria: MM-InstructEval: Zero-shot evaluation of (Multimodal) Large Language Models on multimodal reasoning tasks. Inf. Fusion 122: 103204 (2025)
• Zihan Wang, Fanheng Kong, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Han Zhao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: Is Mamba effective for time series forecasting? Neurocomputing 619: 129178 (2025)
• Huiying Cao, Yiqun Zhang, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: TOOL-ED: Enhancing Empathetic Response Generation with the Tool Calling Capability of LLM. COLING 2025: 5305-5320 (CCF B)
• Wenfang Wu, Daling Wang, Ming Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang: Sentiment Triplet Extraction with Multi-view Contrastive Learning. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2025) (CCF B)
• Huan Bai, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yi-Fei Zhang: EKBSA: A Chinese Sentiment Analysis Model by Enhancing K-BERT. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 40(1): 60-72 (2025) (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Ercong Nie, Shi Feng, Zheng Hua, Zifeng Ding, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze: A Unified Data Augmentation Framework for Low-Resource Multi-domain Dialogue Generation. ECML/PKDD (2) 2024: 162-177 (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Yiqun Zhang, Qian Li, Tong Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze: HiFT: A Hierarchical Full Parameter Fine-Tuning Strategy. EMNLP 2024: 18266-18287 (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze: ChatZero: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Dialogue Generation via Pseudo-Target Language. ECAI 2024: 3867-3874 (CCF B)
• Chenhui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang: E&S-Gainer: An Emotion Aware and Strategy Enhanced Model for Emotional Support Conversation. DASFAA 2024: 71–87 (CCF B)
• Zhenfei Yang, Beiming Yu, Yuan Cui, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: BERT-BC: A Unified Alignment and Interaction Model over Hierachical BERT for Response Selection. LREC/COLING 2024: 2253-2263 (CCF B)
• Weihong Guan, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Faliang Huang, Yifei Zhang, Yuan Cui: Improving Role-Oriented Dialogue Summarization with Interaction-Aware Contrastive Learning. LREC/COLING 2024: 8913-8924 (CCF B)
• Mingxiu Cai, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang: EmpCRL: Controllable Empathetic Response Generation via In-Context Commonsense Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning. LREC/COLING 2024: 5734-5746 (CCF B)
• Fanheng Kong, Peidong Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: TIGER: A Unified Generative Model Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation. LREC/COLING 2024: 16135-16141 (CCF B)
• Mingxiu Cai, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang: PECER: Empathetic Response Generation via Dynamic Personality Extraction and Contextual Emotional Reasoning. ICASSP 2024: 10631-10635 (CCF B)
• Tianbao Zhang, Huiying Cao, Shi Feng, Yuan Cui, Daling Wang: TS-DDD: A Two-Stage Training Strategy for Dialogue-based Disease Diagnosis. BIBM 2023: 765-770 (CCF B)
• Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Xiangmin Zhou, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Graph neural network for recommendation in complex and quaternion spaces. World Wide Web (WWW) 26(6): 3945-3964 (2023) (CCF B)
• Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Soujanya Poria: Few-shot Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Based on Multimodal Probabilistic Fusion Prompts. ACM Multimedia 2023: 6045-6053 (CCF A)
• Qian Li, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: OERL: Enhanced Representation Learning Via Open Knowledge Graphs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35(9): 8880-8892 (2023) (CCF A)
• Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Hinrich Schütze, Yifei Zhang: PVGRU: Generating Diverse and Relevant Dialogue Responses via Pseudo-Variational Mechanism. ACL (1) 2023: 3295-3310 (CCF A)
• Qian Li, Shafiq Joty, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Chengwei Qin: Contrastive Learning with Generated Representations for Inductive Knowledge Graph Embedding. ACL (Findings) 2023: 14273-14287 (CCF A)
• Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Qi Sun, Wenfang Wu, Pengfei Hong, Yifei Zhang, Soujanya Poria: Few-shot Joint Multimodal Aspect-Sentiment Analysis Based on Generative Multimodal Prompt. ACL (Findings) 2023: 11575-11589 (CCF A)
• Renxi Wang, Shi Feng: Global-Local Modeling with Prompt-Based Knowledge Enhancement for Emotion Inference in Conversation. EACL (Findings) 2023: 2120–2127
• Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong, Soujanya Poria: Multiple Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Accept by ICASSP 2023 (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Network for Multi-view Response Selection. EMNLP 2022: 12086-12098 (CCF B)
• Qian Li, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Alleviating Sparsity of Open Knowledge Graphs with Ternary Contrastive Learning. EMNLP (Findings) 2022: 2279-2291 (CCF B)
• Qian Li, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Cheng Niu, Yifei Zhang: Global Graph Attention Embedding Network for Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 33(11): 6712-6725 (2022) (CCF B)
• Minghao Xu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Zhenfei Yang, Yifei Zhang: KC-ISA: An Implicit Sentiment Analysis Model Combining Knowledge Enhancement and Context Features. COLING 2022: 6906-6915 (CCF B)
• Dongshi Ju, Shi Feng, Pengcheng Lv, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: Learning to Improve Persona Consistency in Multi-party Dialogue Generation via Text Knowledge Enhancement. COLING 2022: 298-309 (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: MulZDG: Multilingual Code-Switching Framework for Zero-shot Dialogue Generation. COLING 2022: 648-659 (CCF B)
• Ying Zhu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Donghong Han: Knowledge-Enhanced Interactive Matching Network for Multi-turn Response Selection in Medical Dialogue Systems. DASFAA (3) 2022: 255-262 (CCF B)
• Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation in Geometric Algebra. DASFAA (2) 2022: 256-263 (CCF B)
• Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shifeng Li. Informative and diverse multi-turn emotional conversation generation with variational recurrent pointer-generator. Frontiers Comput. Sci. 16(5): 165326 (2022)
• Weichao Wang, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Ling Chen, Daling Wang: Adaptive Posterior Knowledge Selection for Improving Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation. CIKM 2021: 1989-1998 (CCF B)
• Xiangju Li, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Wang Daling, Shafiq Joty: Span-Level Emotion Cause Analysis by BERT-based Graph Attention Network. CIKM 2021: 3221-3226 (CCF B)
• Xiangju Li, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Wang Daling, Shafiq Joty: Span-level Emotion Cause Analysis with Neural Sequence Tagging. CIKM 2021: 3227-3231 (CCF B)
• Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Ling Chen, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Learning to improve persona consistency in conversation generation with information augmentation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 228: 107246 (2021).
• Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Daling Wang: Multimodal Sentiment Detection Based on Multi-channel Graph Neural Network. ACL 2021: 328-339 (CCF A)
• Xiangju Li, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Daling Wang: Boundary Detection with BERT for Span-level Emotion Cause Analysis. ACL (Findings) 2021: 676-682 (CCF A)
• Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Which Node Pair and What Status? Asking Expert for Better Network Embedding. DASFAA (1) 2021: 141-157 (CCF B)
• Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Feiliang Ren, Yifei Zhang: A Graph Reasoning Network for Multi-turn Response Selection via Customized Pre-training. AAAI 2021: 13433-13442 (CCF A)
• Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: Image-text Multimodal Emotion Classification via Multi-view Attentional Network. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Published online (CCF B)
• Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Wei Gao, Yifei Zhang. InterSentiment: combining deep neural models on interaction and sentiment for review rating prediction, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. Published online
• Pengcheng Lv, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: PersonaGAN: Personalized Response Generation via Generative Adversarial Networks. DASFAA (1) 2020: 570-586 (CCF B)
• Shifeng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Yifei Zhang, Weichao Wang: EmoElicitor: An Open Domain Response Generation Model with User Emotional Reaction Awareness. IJCAI 2020: 3637-3643 (CCF A)
• Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: A Cue Adaptive Decoder for Controllable Neural Response Generation. WWW 2020: 2570-2576 (CCF A)

• Jia Wei, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiangju Li. Attentional Neural Network for Emotion Detection in Conversations with Speaker Influence Awareness. NLPCC 2019: 287-297
• Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang. Answer-guided and Semantic Coherent Question Generation in Open-domain Conversation. EMNLP 2019: 5065-5075 (CCF B)
• Xiangju Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang. Context-aware emotion cause analysis with multi-attention-based neural network. Knowledge-Based Systems. 174: 205-218 (2019)
• Longcan Wu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang. MDAL: Multi-task Dual Attention LSTM Model for Semi-supervised Network Embedding. 2019: 468-483 (CCF B)
• Shi Feng, Yaqi Wang, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Ge Yu. Attention based Hierarchical LSTM Network for Context-aware Microblog Sentiment Classification. World Wide Web 22(1): 59-81 (2019) (CCF B)
• Xiangju Li, Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang. A Co-attention Neural Network Model for Emotion Cause Analysis with Emotional Context Awareness. EMNLP 2018: 4752-4757 (CCF B)
• Weichao Wang, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang. Personalized Microblog Sentiment Classification via Adversarial Cross-lingual Multi-task Learning. EMNLP 2018: 338-348 (CCF B)
• Shi Feng, Yaqi Wang, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Ge Yu. Detecting Multiple Coexisting Emotions in Microblogs with Convolutional Neural Networks. Cognitive Computation 10(1): 136-155 (2018)
• Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, Chengqi Zhang: Recommendation vs Sentiment Analysis: A Text-Driven Latent Factor Model for Rating Prediction with Cold-Start Awareness. IJCAI 2017: 2744-2750 (CCF A)
• Yaqi Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Yifei Zhang: Multi-label Chinese Microblog Emotion Classification via Convolutional Neural Network. APWeb 2016: 567-580
• Yang Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Context-Aware Chinese Microblog Sentiment Classification with Bidirectional LSTM. APWeb 2016: 594-606
• Liran Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang: An Empirical Study on Chinese Microblog Stance Detection Using Supervised and Semi-supervised Machine Learning Methods. NLPCC/ICCPOL 2016: 753-765
• Kaisong Song, Wei Gao, Ling Chen, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Chengqi Zhang: Build Emotion Lexicon from the Mood of Crowd via Topic-Assisted Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization. SIGIR 2016: 773-776 (CCF A)
• Wen Qu, Xiangmin Zhou, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu: Intermediate Semantics Based Distance Metric Learning for Video Annotation and Similarity Measurements. WISE 2016: 227-242
• Kaisong Song, Ling Chen, Wei Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Chengqi Zhang: PerSentiment: A Personalized Sentiment Classification System for Microblog Users. WWW 2016: 255-258 (CCF A)
• Shi Feng, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Ge Yu: A word-emoticon mutual reinforcement ranking model for building sentiment lexicon from massive collection of microblogs. World Wide Web 18(4): 949-967 (2015) (CCF B)
• Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ling Chen, Chengqi Zhang: Build Emotion Lexicon from Microblogs by Combining Effects of Seed Words and Emoticons in a Heterogeneous Graph. HT 2015: 283-292
• Kaisong Song, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Kam-Fai Wong: Personalized Sentiment Classification Based on Latent Individuality of Microblog Users. IJCAI 2015: 2277-2283 (CCF A)
• Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Wen Qu, Ge Yu: CTROF: A Collaborative Tweet Ranking Framework for Online Personalized Recommendation. PAKDD 2014: 1-12
• Shi Feng, Le Zhang, Binyang Li, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Kam-Fai Wong: Is Twitter A Better Corpus for Measuring Sentiment Similarity? EMNLP 2013: 897-902 (CCF B)
• Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Dong Wang, Ge Yu: Detecting Opinion Drift from Chinese Web Comments Based on Sentiment Distribution Computing. WISE 2013: 72-81
• Shi Feng, Lin Wang, Weili Xu, Daling Wang, Ge Yu: Unsupervised Learning Chinese Sentiment Lexicon from Massive Microblog Data. ADMA 2012: 27-38
• Shi Feng, Jun Pang, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Feng Yang, Dongping Xu: A novel approach for clustering sentiments in Chinese blogs based on graph similarity. Computers & Mathematics with Applications 62(7): 2770-2778 (2011)
• Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong: Extracting common emotions from blogs based on fine-grained sentiment clustering. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 27(2): 281-302 (2011) (CCF B)
• Binyang Li, Lanjun Zhou, Shi Feng, Kam-Fai Wong: A Unified Graph Model for Sentence-Based Opinion Retrieval. ACL 2010: 1367-1375 (CCF A)
• Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Binyang Li, Kam-Fai Wong: A Chinese Sentence Compression Method for Opinion Mining. AIRS 2010: 320-329
• Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Ge Yu, Binyang Li, Kam-Fai Wong: Summarizing and Extracting Online Public Opinion from Blog Search Results. DASFAA 2010: 476-490 (CCF B)

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AWARDS

• Peidong Wang: 2025 Excellent Bachelor's Thesis of Northeastern University
• Yijie Huang: 2024 Excellent Bachelor's Thesis of Northeastern University
• Shifeng Li: 2021 Excellent Master's Thesis of Northeastern University
• Wenhan Dong et al.: ADMA2021 Best Student Paper Runner-up Award
• Jinxi Fan et al.: CCKS2020 Best English Paper Runner-up Award