Li Bobo

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore

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                                     I'm constantly seeking collaborators (remote or on-site).
                                    Students from Chinese universities are welcome to apply for CSC-funded joint PhD programs or academic visits.

[Jan 2026] Two papers accepted at ICLR 2026. Congrats to my co-authors!

[Jan 2026] One paper accepted at ICASSP 2026. Congrats to my co-authors!

[Nov 2025] One paper accepted at AAAI 2026. Congrats to my co-author!

[Nov 2025] I serve as a publicity chair of SSNLP 2026. [ssnlp2026]

[Oct 2025] One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI. Congrats to my co-authors! [Paper]

[Aug 2025] One paper accepted at ACM MM 2025 (Dataset Track). Congrats to my co-authors! [Project]

[May 2025] One paper accepted at ICML 2025. Congrats to my co-authors! [Project page]

[May 2025] One paper accepted at ACL 2025. Congrats to my co-authors! [Code]

[Mar 2025] Organizing The 1st Workshop on Cognition-oriented Multimodal Affective and Empathetic Computing (CogMAEC) at ACM MM 2025. [Workshop website]

I am a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Mong-Li Lee and Prof. Wynne Hsu. I received my Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University, supervised by Prof. Donghong Ji and Prof. Fei Li. I previously visited the Next++ Research Centre in NUS, advised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Dr. Hao Fei. My research centers on Large Language Models (LLMs), with focuses on agentic AI, cognitive intelligence, and affective computing.

Publications (Selected)

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Academic Service

Program Committee

2026: ACL, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, WWW
2025: ICML, WWW, ACM MM, NeurIPS, ACL, CCL, NLPCC, EMNLP, WSDM, CIKM
2024: ICLR, ICML, ACL, WWW, SIGIR, ACL, ACM MM, AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, COLING, WSDM, NAACL
2023: EMNLP, ACL, IJCAI, WSDM, ACL Rolling, NLPCC
2022: EMNLP, WSDM

Journal Reviewer

2026: IJCV, Neurocomputing
2025: TAFFC, TALLIP, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing
2024: TAFFC, TALLIP, IPM, Neurocomputing
2023: TCSVT, TMM
2022: IPM

Volunteer

Mar. 2023: WSDM, Singapore
Oct. 2024: CCIR, China

Organized Competitions & Workshops

ACM MM 2025: The 1st Workshop on Cognition-oriented Multimodal Affective and Empathetic Computing (CogMAEC)
ACM MM 2025: Panoptic Sentiment Grand Challenge
NLPCC 2024: Nominal Compound Chain Extraction
ACM MM 2024: Visual Spatial Description Challenge
NLPCC 2023: Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Analysis

Awards

Nov. 2024: 2nd Prize for Graduate Academic Innovation of Wuhan University
Oct. 2024: Outstanding Graduate Student of Wuhan University
Oct. 2023: Outstanding Graduate Student of Wuhan University
Jul. 2022: MoE Scholarship for Joint Ph.D Training Program
Oct. 2020: Outstanding Graduate Student of Wuhan University
Oct. 2020: Wuhan University Graduate Scholarship

Teaching Assistant

Autumn 2023: Natural Language Processing, Wuhan University
Spring 2020: Data Structure, Wuhan University
Autumn 2020: Social Computing, Wuhan University

Mentoring

Meng Luo (NUS)
Jiajia Song (NUS)
Pengxin Xu (ZGCA)
Haijun He (WHU)
Qiang Gao (WHU)
Zixiang Meng (WHU)
Jiahui Liu (WHU)
Yuheng Wang (WHU)
Jincheng Cao (WHU)