I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), affiliated with the Visual Geometry Group (USTC-VGG) research group at the National Engineering Laboratory for Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology and Application (NEL-BITA). My advisor is Prof. Xuejin Chen. During my master’s studies (2024-2026), I was jointly trained with Prof. Meng Wang (IEEE/IAPR Fellow)’s team at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, and supervised by Assoc. Prof. Jinyang Huang and Prof. Dan Guo. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Microelectronics from Hefei University of Technology in 2024.

My research focuses on brain-inspired multimodal perceptual and cognitive intelligence, spanning robust visual intelligence, brain-inspired and affective cognitive intelligence, multimodal foundation models and embodied intelligence, and AI for Science. My long-term goal is to build efficient, trustworthy, generalizable, and personalized intelligent systems for real-world interactive scenarios.

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Selected Publications

Robust Visual Intelligence

7 papers

This direction studies robust representation learning for fine-grained visual understanding across images, videos, and 3D scenes, focusing on distribution shifts, long-tailed categories, low-quality imaging, cross-subject generalization, geometry-aware perception, and subtle visual variations.

ACM MM 2025

Learning from Heterogeneity: Generalizing Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Distributionally Robust Optimization Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Jinyang Huang, Jie Zhang, Dan Guo, Zhi Liu, Meng Wang

IEEE ICME 2026

Dual-Path Learning based on Frequency Structural Decoupling and Regional-Aware Fusion for Low-Light Image Super-Resolution Ji-Xuan He, Jia-Cheng Zhao, Feng-Qi Cui (Corresponding author), Jinyang Huang, Yang Liu, Sirui Zhao, Meng Li, Zhi Liu

IEEE T-CE 2026

Robust Low-Rank Sparse Framework for Video-Based Affective Computing Feng-Qi Cui, Jinyang Huang, Sirui Zhao, Xinyu Li, Xin Yan, Ziyu Jia, Xiaokang Zhou

IEEE ICASSP 2026

UniGeo: A Unified 3D Indoor Object Detection Framework Integrating Geometry-Aware Learning and Dynamic Channel Gating Xing Yi, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Ruimin Wang, Liu Liu, Dan Guo

IEEE T-GRS 2026

Dual-Branch CNN with Enhanced Bidirectional Multiscale Sparse Cross-Attention for Remote Sensing Scene Classification Xinyuan Wu, Zhiguo Ma, Feng-Qi Cui, Huasen He, Yunpeng Hou, Jian Yang

ISPA 2025

MICACL: Multi-Instance Category-Aware Contrastive Learning for Long-Tailed Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Feng-Qi Cui, Zhen Lin, Xinlong Rao, Anyang Tong, Shiyao Li, Fei Wang, Changlin Chen, Bin Liu

arXiv 2026

ReMA: A Training-Free Plug-and-Play Mixing Augmentation for Video Behavior Recognition Feng-Qi Cui, Jinyang Huang, Sirui Zhao, Jinglong Guo, Qifan Cai, Xin Yan, Zhi Liu

Brain-inspired and Affective Cognitive Intelligence

6 papers

This direction explores brain-inspired perceptual and cognitive modeling by learning trustworthy representations of affective, physiological, and cognitive signals, covering dynamic facial expressions, depression assessment, respiratory monitoring, sleep health, auditory attention decoding, cross-subject cognitive modeling, and future neural structure analysis.

IEEE T-IFS 2026

Towards Trustworthy Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Information Bottleneck Modeling
Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Jinyang Huang, Jie Zhang, Meng Li, Xin Yan, Linsheng Huang, Dan Guo, Meng Wang

IEEE T-AFFC 2025

CausalSymptom: Learning Causal Disentangled Representation for Depression Severity Estimation on Transcribed Clinical Interviews Mingzheng Li, Xiao Sun, Xinke Wang, Feng-Qi Cui, Xun Yang

CogSci 2026

Band-Gated Identity-Disentangled Training for Cross-Subject Auditory Attention Decoding
Siying Tao, Jingjing Hu, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Xueliang Liu, Dan Guo

arXiv 2026

Towards Trustworthy Depression Estimation via Disentangled Evidential Learning Fangyuan Liu, Sirui Zhao, Zeyu Zhang, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Bin Luo, Tong Xu, Meng Li, Enhong Chen

arXiv 2026

A New Paradigm for Trusted Respiratory Monitoring Via Consumer Electronics-grade Radar Signals Xinyu Li, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Meng Wang, Peng Zhao, Meng Li, Dan Guo

计算机应用 2024

基于通用手环的睡眠呼吸暂停检测 黄锦阳, 崔丰麒, 马长秀, 樊文东, 李萌, 李经宇, 孙晓, 黄林生, 刘志

Multimodal and Embodied Intelligence

4 papers

This direction investigates multimodal foundation models, embodied intelligence, and ubiquitous sensing for real-world interactive systems, focusing on semantic distillation, multimodal alignment, wireless sensing, tactile perception, embodied control, identity perception, and trustworthy personalized interaction.

IEEE T-DSC 2026

Identifying Who You Are No Matter What You Write through Abstracting Handwriting Style Jinyang Huang, Yuanhao Feng, Feng-Qi Cui (Equal contribution), Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Xin Liu, Jianchun Liu, Fusang Zhang, Meng Li

arXiv 2025

Embodied Intelligence: The Key to Unblocking Generalized Artificial Intelligence Jinhao Jiang, Changlin Chen, Shile Feng, Wanru Geng, Zesheng Zhou, Ni Wang, Shuai Li, Feng-Qi Cui, Erbao Dong

IJCAI 2026

PECHC: Robust Tactile Grasping Stabilization in Vision-Denied Peripersonal Space
Changlin Chen, Sisheng Chen, Hang Zhang, Xianglai Zhou, Zhen Tian, Weitao Liu, Feng-Qi Cui, Erbao Dong, Wenjing Chen

ICPADS 2025

Generalizing WiFi Gesture Recognition via Large-Model-Aware Semantic Distillation and Alignment Feng-Qi Cui, Yu-Tong Guo, Tianyue Zheng, Jinyang Huang

AI for Science

2 papers

This direction explores interdisciplinary intelligent computing for scientific discovery, including complex systems, environmental science, bio-inspired analysis, and scientific modeling.

PNAS Nexus

Natural-selected plastics biodegradation species and enzymes in landfills Xiaoxing Lin, Rui Zhang, Feng-Qi Cui, Wenqing Hong, Shu Yang, Feng Ju, Chuanwu Xi, Xiao Sun, Liyan Song

Chaos Solitons & Fractals 2023

Theoretical analysis and experimental verification of fractional-order RC cobweb circuit network Yang Liu, Liping Chen, Xiaobo Wu, António M Lopes, Feng-Qi Cui, YangQuan Chen

Selected Honors and Awards

• IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee 2025 Technology Competition Silver Award.
  (Dan Guo, Jinyang Huang, Jing Zhang, Wei Qian , Zhangbin Li, Siying Tao, Feng-Qi Cui, Meng Wang) | [Link]
• Hefei University of Technology, one of the top ten outstanding students (only 10 in the entire university).
• CCF首届泛在智能感知技术创新应用大赛 二等奖.（排序2/5） | [Link]
• 第八届（2022）中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛 国家银奖.（排序1/15；安徽省产业赛道唯一入围全国现场赛项目）| [Link1] | [Link2]

Academic Services

• Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Affective Computing and Advanced Intelligent Machines, Student Working Group Leader. | [Link]
• Anhui Provincial Artificial Intelligence Society, Emotional Computing Committee, Student Working Group Leader (2024.08 - 2025.03 ). | [Link]
• Reviewer: IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• Baidu PaddlePaddle Developers Experts (PPDE).| [Link]