研究方向：复杂系统中参数的反推问题研究。
主持基金项目：
1. 国家自然科学基金，NSFC11705097，含有“不可见”自旋异步伊辛模型的重构及其应用，主持
2. 江苏省自然科学基金，BK20170895，含隐自旋异步伊辛模型的重构及其应用，主持
3. 江苏省高校自然科学面上项目，17KJB140015，含隐自旋异步伊辛模型的重构研究，主持
4. 南京邮电大学科研基金，NY217013，动物集体行为中环境结构复杂性及大脑形态研究，主持。发表论文：
I.） Zoology: Brain morphology and fish behavior
1.Alexander Kotrschal, Hong-Li Zeng, Wouter van der Bijl, Caroline Öhman-Mägi, Kurt Kotrschal, Kristiaan Pelckmans, Niclas Kolm, Evolution of brain region volumes during artificial selection for relative brain size, Evolution. 71 (2017), 2942-2951.
2.Alexander Kotrschal, Alex Szorkovszky, Maksym Romenskyy, Andrea Perna, Severine Buechel, Hong-Li Zeng, Kristiaan Pelckmans, David Sumpter, Niclas Kolm, Brain size does not impact shoaling dynamics in unfamiliar groups of guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Behavioural Processes, 147 (2018), 13-20. II.） Network Reconstruction: Inverse Ising Problem
3.John Hertz, Yasser Roudi,Andreas Thorning, Joanna Tyrcha, Erik Aurell, Hong-Li Zeng, Inferring network connectivity using kinetic Ising models,BMC Neuroscience. 11 (2010), P51.
4.Hong-Li Zeng, Erik Aurell, Mikko Alava, Hamed Mahmoudi, Network inference using asynchronously updated kinetic Ising model, Physical Review E. 83 (2011), 041135.
5.Hong-Li Zeng, Mikko Alava, Erik Aurell, John Hertz, Yasser Roudi, Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction for Ising Models with Asynchronous Updates, Physical Review Letters. 110 (2013), 210601.
6.Hong-Li Zeng, Remi Lemoy, Mikko Alava, Financial interaction networks inferred from traded volumes , Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment. 07 (2014) P07008.
7.Hong-Li Zeng, John Hertz, Yasser Roudi, L1 regularization for reconstruction of a non-equilibrium Ising model, Physica Scripta. 89 (2014) 105002.
III.）First-Principle Calculation-NanoPhysics
8.Hong-Li Zeng, Yan-Dong Guo; Xiao-Hong Yan, Jie Zhou, Hydrogenated carbon nanotube-based spin caloritronics. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19 (2017) 21507-21613.
9.Li-Zhi Hu, Yan-Dong Guo,Xiao-Hong Yan, Hong-Li Zeng, Jie Zhou, Electronic transport properties in [n]cycloparaphenylenes molecular devices. Physics Letters A. 381, (2017), 2107-2111.
10.Jing-Jing He, Yan-Dong Guo, Xiao-Hong Yan, Hong-Li Zeng, Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of transition metal-doped holely C 2 N- h 2D nanoribbons, Physica B. 528 (2018) 1-8.
Conference Papers
11.Hong-Li Zeng, Yan-Dong Guo, Chen-Ping Zhu, Marija Mitrovic, Bosiljka Tadic, Congestion patterns of traffic studied on Nanjing city dual graph. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, 5–7 July (2009), 982–989.
12.Hong-Li Zeng, Chen-Ping Zhu, Yan-Dong Guo, Ao Teng, Jing Jia, Hui Kong, Rui Zhou, Juan-Ping Yang, Su-Quan Li, Power-law spectrum and small-world structure emerge from coupled evolution of neuronal activity and synaptic dynamics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 604(2015), 012023.
