Zhiming Zhang

Education & Work

2015.9 ~ 2019.6	Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture	Computer Science and Technology	Bachelor of Engineering
2017.3 ~ 2020.3	Renmin University of China	Computer Science and Technology	Joint Educational Project
2019.1 ~ 2019.10	Visionary Intelligence Ltd. (Vistel)	Algorithm Engineer	Internship
2020.4 ~ 2022.3	University of Toyama	Intelligent Information	Master of Engineering
2022.4 ~ present	University of Toyama	Artificial Intelligence	Doctor of Engineering

Awards & Services

Undergraduate

 2015.9 ~ 2019.10

• The Third Award of 2016 "China Robot Competition", Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), China, 2016
• Excellent Student Award, BUCEA, China, 2016-2019
• The First Class Award Scholarship, BUCEA, China, 2016-2019
• The Third Award of 8^th "LanQiao Cup" Programming Contest Group A, China, 2017
• Founded "Robot" Club (served as president) and awarded Top Ten Outstanding Associations, 2018, BUCEA, China
• The Second Award of 7^th "China Software Cup", China, 2018
• Excellent Presentation Award of 7^th "China Software Cup", China, 2018
• The Third Award of 9^th "LanQiao Cup" Softwar Entrepreneurship Team Competition, China, 2018
• Excellent Bachelor Dissertation Award, BUCEA, China, 2019

Postgraduate

 2020.4 ~ present

• The ASAHI International Education Foundation, Japan, 2021-2022
• Doctoral Fellowship of "Creation Science, Technology and Innovation", University of Toyama, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 2022-2025
• Silver Award for 13^th International Advances in Swarm Intelligence Conference, 2022
• Research assistant for the World's Top 2% Scientists, 2022.4~present
• IEEE Student Member, 2023~presnet
• Reviewer for 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2023
• Reviewer for 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023.2~presnet

Selected Publications

Medical Imaging

1. Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, M.C. Zhou, H. Hasegawa, and S. Gao, " Complex-valued Convolutional Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Ultrasound Beamforming," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024. (IF=10.4, CAS Ranking Q1)
2. Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, M. Omura, R.L. Wang, and S. Gao, "Dendritic Deep Learning for Medical Segmentation," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2024. (IF=11.8, CAS Ranking Q1)
3. Z. Lei, S. Gao, H. Hasegawa, Z. Zhang, M.C. Zhou, and K. Sedraoui, "Fully Complex-Valued Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Ultrasound Imaging," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023. (IF=10.4, CAS Ranking Q1)

Bioinformatics (Protein Structure Prediction)

4. Z. Zhang, S. Gao, Z. Lei, R. Xiong, and J. Cheng, "Pareto Archive and Coordinated Strategy-based Many-objective Optimization Algorithm for Ab-initio Protein Structure Prediction," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2328-2340, May 2023. (IF=4.5, CCF B)
5. Z. Lei, S. Gao, Z. Zhang, M.C. Zhou, and J. Cheng, "MO4: A Many-objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 417-430, Jun. 2022. (IF=14.3, CAS Ranking Q1)

Neural Network Theory & Applications

6. Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, M. Omura, H. Hasegawa, and S. Gao, "Dendritic Learning-incorporated Vision Transformer for Image Recognition," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 541-543, Feb. 2024. (IF=11.8, CAS Ranking Q1)
7. Z. Zhang, S. Gao, M.C. Zhou, M. Yan, and S. Cao, " Mapping Network-coordinated Stacked Gated Recurrent Units for Turbulence Prediction," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2024. (IF=11.8, CAS Ranking Q1)
8. M. Yan, Z. Zhang, S. Gao, and S. Cao, "Predicting Aerodynamic Pressure on a Square Cylinder from Wake Velocity Field by Masked Gated Recurrent Unit Model," Physics of Fluids, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 115101, Nov. 2022. (IF=4.6, Top 2 Journals in Fluid Mechanics)