情感计算、人工智能、模式识别、语音信号处理、计算机视觉，特别关注语音情感识别与合成、面部表情/微表情识别、多模态融合及其在智能人机交互方面的应用研究
1. 2023-12，江苏省科协青年科技人才托举工程（JSTJ-2023-XH033），2万元，主持
2. 2023-11, 中国博士后科学基金第74批面上资助（2023M740600），8万元，主持
3. 2023-06，江苏省卓越博士后计划，30万元，主持
4. 2019-10，东南大学优秀博士论文培育基金（YBPY1955），3万元，主持
1. Cheng Lu, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Yang Li, Chuangao Tang, Björn W Schuller, Domain invariant feature learning for speaker-independent speech emotion recognition, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 30, 2217-2230, 2022.（JCR Q1; 中科院一区TOP; 语音领域顶级期刊）
2. Cheng Lu, Wenming Zheng, Hailun Lian, Yuan Zong, Chuangao Tang, Sunan Li, Yan Zhao, Speech emotion recognition via an attentive time–frequency neural network, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 10(6):3159-3168, 2023.（JCR Q1）
3. Wenming Zheng, Cheng Lu, Zhouchen Lin, Tong Zhang, Zhen Cui, Wankou Yang, L1-Norm Heteroscedastic Discriminant Analysis Under Mixture of Gaussian Distributions, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2019, 30(10): 2898-2915.（JCR Q1; 中科院一区TOP; 人工智能领域顶级期刊）
4. Cheng Lu, Yuan Zong, Hailun Lian, Yan Zhao, Björn Schuller, Wenming Zheng, Improving Speaker-independent Speech Emotion Recognition Using Dynamic Joint Distribution Adaptation, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2024, pp. 11696-11700.（语音领域两大旗舰会议之一）
5. Cheng Lu, Hailun Lian, Wenming Zheng, Yuan Zong, Yan Zhao, Sunan Li, Learning Local to Global Feature Aggregation for Speech Emotion Recognition, INTERSPEECH 2023, pp. 1908-1912.（语音领域两大旗舰会议之一）
6. Cheng Lu, Chuangao Tang, Jiacheng Zhang, Yuan Zong, Progressively discriminative transfer network for cross-corpus speech emotion recognition, Entropy, 2022, 24.8: 1046. （JCR Q2）
7. Yong Wang, Cheng Lu(共同一作), Hailun Lian, Yan Zhao, Björn Schuller, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Speech Swin-Transformer: Exploring a Hierarchical Transformer with Shifted Windows for Speech Emotion Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2024, pp. 11646-11650.（语音领域两大旗舰会议之一）
8. Yong Wang, Cheng Lu(共同一作), Yuan Zong, Hailun Lian, Yan Zhao, Sunan Li, Time-frequency transformer: A novel time frequency joint learning method for speech emotion recognition, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP). 2023, pp. 415-427.
9. Hailun Lian, Cheng Lu(共同一作), Sunan Li, Yan Zhao, Chuangao Tang, Yuan Zong, A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition: Speech, Text, and Face, Entropy, 2023, 25.10: 1440.（JCR Q2）
10. Hailun Lian, Cheng Lu(共同一作), Sunan Li, Yan Zhao, Chuangao Tang, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Label Distribution Adaptation for Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Multi-label Learning, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing, 2023. pp. 51-58.（国际竞赛亚军）
11. Sunan Li, Hailun Lian, Cheng Lu, Yan Zhao, Chuangao Tang, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Noisy Environment Based on Progressive Label Revision, Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. pp. 9571-9575.（多媒体领域顶级会议; 中国计算机学会CCF-A类推荐）
12. Tianhua Qi, Wenming Zheng, Cheng Lu, Yuan Zong, Hailun Lian, PAVITS: Exploring Prosody-aware VITS for End-to-End Emotional Voice Conversion, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2024, pp.12697-12701.（语音领域两大旗舰会议之一）
13. Yan Zhao, Jincen Wang, Cheng Lu, Sunan Li, Björn Schuller, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Emotion-Aware Contrastive Adaptation Network for Source-Free Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2024, pp.11846-11850.（语音领域两大旗舰会议之一）
14. Sunan Li, Hailun Lian, Cheng Lu, Yan Zhao, Chuangao Tang, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Audio-Visual Group-based Emotion Recognition using Local and Global Feature Aggregation based Multi-Task Learning, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2023, pp. 741-745.（国际竞赛冠军）