Hui Chen

I am a Research Fellow in the School of Computing in National University of Singapore, where I am fortunate to be advised by Bryan Hooi. My research focuses on natural language processing, machine learning and large language models.

Previously, I worked at Nanyang Technological University and received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Singapore University of Technology and Design. I graduated with a B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University.

I am currently working on AI for scientific research and LLM agents. Feel free to chat if you are also interested in these topics!

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Research

MLR-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on Open-Ended Machine Learning Research


Hui Chen*, Miao Xiong*, Yujie Lu, Wei Han, Ailin Deng, Yufei He, Jiaying Wu, Yibo Li, Yue Liu, Bryan Hooi
Preprint, 2025
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PREMISE: Matching-based Prediction for Accurate Review Recommendation


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria
NAACL, 2025 (Findings)
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Self-Adaptive Sampling for Efficient Video Question Answering


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria
NAACL, 2024 (Findings)
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InstructCoder: Instruction Tuning Large Language Models for Code Editing


Kaixin Li*, Qisheng Hu*, James Xu Zhao, Hui Chen, Yuxi Xie, Tiedong Liu, Michael Shieh, Junxian He
Student Research Workshop, ACL, 2024
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Domain-Expanded ASTE: Rethinking Generalization in Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction


Yew Ken Chia, Hui Chen, Guizhen Chen, Wei Han, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
Second Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations, EMNLP, 2024
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SAT: Improving Semi-Supervised Text Classification with Simple Instance-Adaptive Self-Training


Hui Chen, Wei Han, Soujanya Poria
EMNLP, 2022 (Findings)
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SANCL: Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction with Selective Attention and Natural Contrastive Learning


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Zhen Hai, Soujanya Poria, Lidong Bing
COLING, 2022
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MM-Align: Learning Optimal Transport-based Alignment Dynamics for Fast and Accurate Inference on Missing Modality Sequences


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Min-Yen Kan, Soujanya Poria
EMNLP, 2022
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DoubleMix: Simple Interpolation-Based Data Augmentation for Text Classification


Hui Chen, Wei Han, Diyi Yang, Soujanya Poria
COLING, 2022
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Improving Multimodal Fusion with Hierarchical Mutual Information Maximization for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Soujanya Poria
EMNLP, 2021
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Bi-Bimodal Modality Fusion for Correlation-Controlled Multimodal Sentiment Analysis


Wei Han, Hui Chen, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Zadeh, Louis-philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria
ICMI, 2021 (*Best Paper Award Honorable Mention)
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Persuasive Dialogue Understanding: the Baselines and Negative Results


Hui Chen, Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Amir Hussain, Soujanya Poria
Neurocomputing, 2020
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Dialogue Relation Extraction with Document-level Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks


Hui Chen, Pengfei Hong, Wei Han, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
Cognitive Computation, 2023
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Academic Service

Workshop Organization


AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Scientific Research

Area Chair


EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025

Program Committee / Reviewer



Conferences: NeurIPS (2022-2025), ICML (2024-2025), ICLR (2022-2025), ACL (2023-2024), EMNLP (2022-2024), COLM (2024-2025), AAAI (2025-2026), ACM MM (2023-2024)

Journals: Computational Linguistics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), Computer Speech and Language, Information Fusion





Design and source code from Jon Barron's website and Leonid Keselman's fork