Prof. Peng's research interests cover natrual language processing, computer vision, multi-modal data mining and analysis, intelligent technology and systems, storage and energy saving in cloud computing etc. He is an author of more than 150 referred papers appeared in international Journals and conference proceedings, an owner of more than thirty patents. 

Prof. Peng is a member of the Council of Shanghai Computer Society (SCS), Deputy director of  SCS professional committee of Natural Language Processing, a Senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF), Executive Committee Member of CCF professional committee of intelligent Robot, Bigdata Expert of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Expert of Technical Services Committee in Shanghai Computer Industry Association, Reveiw expert of NSFC, a Program Committee member, Session Chair and Registration Chair for more than a dozen of international conferences. Prof. Peng was President of CCF YOCSEF Shanghai (2015-2016), Vice director of Shanghai Computer Society Youth Working Committee (2015-2018), a referee for more than 60 famous international journals and conferences.