Ziming Zhang

Ziming Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), with additional affiliations in Data Science and Robotics Engineering. He previously held research roles at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and Boston University.

• PhD in Computing (2013) from Oxford Brookes University, UK
• MS in Computing Science (2010) from Simon Fraser University, CA
• BS in Computer Science and Technology (2005) from Northeastern University, China

Research interests span computer vision, machine learning, and their applications in point cloud processing, medical imaging, autonomous driving, and IoT. He leads the Vision, Intelligence, and System Laboratory (VISLab) at WPI.

Recent publications focus on 3D reconstruction, hyperbolic learning, and robust classifiers. Awards include the R&D100 Award 2018 and NSF funding for data-efficient deep learning.

• PhD Students: Yecheng Lyu (co-supervised), Guojun Wu (co-supervised), Hangrui Zhang, Xuechu Yu
• Master's Students: Yun Yue, Yuping Shao
• Visiting Scholars: Fangzhou Lin

His lab partners with industry and academic institutions, focusing on autonomous systems, robotics, and scientific imaging projects.