Yanpeng Tong

at Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT)

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Research Center for SCIR

The School of AI

Faculty of Computing

Hi, there. I am Yanpeng Tong, currently a senior graduate in the school of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computing, HIT.

And it’s my great honor to join the Sentiment Computing(SC) group, Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics (SCIR) in 2022 Fall, starting my M.S. Degree journey.

Information

Email: yptong@ir.hit.edu.cn or yanpengt06@gmail.com
Github: github.com/yanpengt06
Home Page: yanpengt06.github.io
I am supervised by Professor Yanyan Zhao， and co-supervised by Prof. Bing Qin.

Education

  • M.S. Sentiment Analysis, SCIR, Faculty of Computing, HIT, 2023.09 - today
  • B.S. Software Engineer, Faculty of Computing, HIT, 2019.08 - 2023.06

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Process, specially on Large Language Model(LLMs)
  • Social Intelligence/Situational Intelligence of LLMs
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Web Service Development

Award

  1. National Scholarship, October 2022
  2. First Prize, National College Student Information Security Contest, August 2022
  3. Guanghua Scholarship (Top 10 out of 472), October 2020
  4. Outstanding Graduate of Heilongjiang Province, May 2023
  5. Model Outstanding Student Cadre (Top 5 undergraduates in the school), December 2021
  6. Third Prize, National Academic English Vocabulary Competition for College Students, June 2021
  7. Third Prize, Mathematical Modeling Contest of Northeast China, November 2020
  8. We won the First Place on WASSA Shared Task 1:CONV @ACL Workshop2023

Research Experience

  1. Sentiment Computing(SC) Group, SCIR, 2021.09 - today
  2. Reinforcement Learning Based Join Order Selection, Massive Data Research Center(MDC), 2022.03 - 2022.04

Project Experience

  1. Analysis of Cognitive Contention Points in Social Media (Collaborated with CCTV)
    May 2024 – September 2024
    Conducted opinion clustering on social media platforms (Weibo, Zhihu, etc.) to identify cognitive contention points. Developed classification and risk assessment modules to support public opinion analysis and cognitive security.
    Role: Led the development of the contention point classification module; successfully delivered and deployed by China Central Television (CCTV).

  2. QiaoBan: A Large Language Model for Children’s Emotional Companionship
    March 2023 – April 2024
    Adapted a general-purpose LLM to child-centric emotional dialogue scenarios via instruction fine-tuning.
    Role: Core contributor, responsible for model training and demo system development and deployment.
    Welcome to try it out! Click demo below and Chat with Qiaoban
    GitHub: https://github.com/HIT-SCIR-SC/QiaoBan (150+ stars)
    Demo: https://qiaoban.hit-scir.com

  3. Face Information Protection System Based on MAE
    October 2021 – March 2022
    (First Prize, National College Student Information Security Competition)
    Integrated key-based security techniques into the MAE (Masked Autoencoder) architecture for privacy-preserving face data storage.
    Role: Developed the persistent storage module for face information, implemented the web front-end for the demo system, and deployed the server-side application.
    demo: http://mae.zkabout.xyz:8501(It may be shut down for a long time…)

  4. The Invoice Management System, 2022.01
  5. Analysis and Prediction about COVID-19, Mathematical Modeling Competition in Northeastern China, 2020.06
  6. “i-Bin” Intelligent Classification Trash Can, 2020.09

Internship

  1. China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. – Research Institute
    Assistant Researcher, Standards & Technical Information Center
    July 2025 – September 2025, Guangzhou
    • Explored full-process construction of AI4Research based on LLM Agent.
    • Applied Deep Research and RAG techniques for intelligent document summarization and Q&A on the power grid knowledge base.
  2. iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. – Northeast Asia Research Institute
    Assistant Algorithm Engineer, COG1 Department
    July 2022 – December 2022, Harbin
    Focused on multilingual semantic understanding. Responsible for dataset tool development and academic literature review.

Hobby

Music, Badminton, Piano, Movie.

selected publications

  1. Is ChatGPT equipped with emotional dialogue capabilities?
    Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.09582, 2023
    Bib PDF
  2. HIT-SCIR at WASSA 2023: Empathy and emotion analysis at the utterance-level and the essay-level
    Xin Lu, Zhuojun Li, Yanpeng Tong, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, 2023
    Bib PDF
  3. A parental emotion coaching dialogue assistant for better parent-child interaction
    Weixiang Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yanpeng Tong, and 6 more authors
    Science China Information Sciences, 2025
    Bib PDF
  4. 一种基于 MAE 人脸隐私保护方法的身份认证系统.
    钱泽凯, 童彦澎, 刘绍辉, and 2 more authors
    Cyber Security & Data Governance, 2023
    Bib