博士，广东外语外贸大学高级翻译学院副研究员、研究生导师，2015年7月毕业于武汉大学计算机学院（导师：姬东鸿），2015年10月至2016年10月在新加坡科技设计大学从事博士后研究（合作导师：张岳），2017年3月以“云山青年学者A岗”加入广东外语外贸大学，主要研究领域为自然语言处理和文本挖掘。目前主持相关领域的多项研究课题，包括国家自然科学基金，国家语委重点项目和广东省自然科学基金等。主要从事情感分析、信息抽取、文本挖掘等研究工作。目前以第一作者和通讯作者发表CCF A/B论文10多篇，包括多篇SCI期刊论文，以及人工智能领域、自然语言处理领域和生物信息学领域的顶级学术会议论文（AAAI, EMNLP, COLING, BIBM等）。
近五年代表性成果：
(1) Hao Fei, Yue Zhang, Yafeng Ren*, Donghong Ji.Latent Emotion Memory for Multi-label Emotion Classification.Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCF A,通讯作者), 2020
(2) Hao Fei, Yafeng Ren*, Donghong Ji.Recognizing Nested Named Entity in Biomedical Texts: A Neural Network Model with Multi-Task Learning. Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (CCF B,通讯作者), 2019
(3) Yafeng Ren, Hao Fei, Donghong Ji.Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction Using a Span-based Neural Network Model. Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (CCF B), 2019
(4) Hao Fei, Yafeng Ren*, Donghong Ji.Implicit Objective Network for Emotion Detection. Proceedings of the 8th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (CCF C,通讯作者), 2019
(5) Yafeng Ren, Hao Fei, Xiaohui Liang, Donghong Ji, Ming Cheng.A hybrid neural network model for predicting kidney disease in hypertension patients based on electronic health records. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (SCI), 2019
(6) Yafeng Ren, Hao Fei, Qiong Peng.Detecting the Scope of Negation and Speculation in Biomedical Texts by Using Recursive Neural Network. Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (CCF B). 2018
(7) Yafeng Ren, Hao Fei, Han Ren.Neural Networks for Bacterial Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (CCF B), 2018
(8) Yafeng Ren, Donghong Ji, Han Ren.Context-augmented convolutional neural networks for twitter sarcasm detection. Neurocomputing (CCF C, SCI), 2018
(9) Yafeng Ren, Donghong Ji.Neural networks for deceptive opinion spam detection: An empirical study. Information Sciences (CCF B, SCI), 2017
(10) Yafeng Ren, Ruimin Wang, Donghong Ji.A topic-enhanced word embedding for Twitter sentiment classification. Information Sciences (CCF B, SCI), 2016
联系方式：renyafeng@gdufs.edu.cn
