H. He, J. Laufer, Z. Zheng, D. Elkan-Gonzalez, R. Goyal, X. Li, S. Lu, M. Musa, B. Saat, N. Tan and C. Prendergast, "Industrial Dexterity Benchmark: A Hardware-Software Benchmarking Platform for Industrial Dexterous Manipulation," arXiv:2607.14021 (2026).
S. Li, J. McPherson, G. Venugopalan, S. Poddar, Z. Zheng, R. Marathe et al., "Non-Cation Contaminants in PEM Water Electrolysis," 249th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting (2026).
Z. Zheng, S. Seidel, A. Yellepeddi, S. Poddar, E. Padgett, S. Blair, C. Liu, G. Bender and S. Zheng, "Automated Detection of Anomalous Electrolyzer Cells Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Machine Learning," 248th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting (2025).
H. Cheng, E. Veilleux, Z. Zheng, S. Wagner, N. Verma, J. C. Sturm and M. Chen, "eViper-2D: A Thin Large-Area Soft Robotics Platform," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Z. Zheng, L. Mentzer, B. Iskender, M. Price, C. Prendergast and A. Cloitre, "Semantic Segmentation and Scene Reconstruction of RGB-D Image Frames: An End-to-End Modular Pipeline for Robotic Applications," arXiv:2410.17988 (2024).
H. Cheng, Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, W. Afridi, B. Kim, S. Wagner, N. Verma, J. C. Sturm, M. Chen, “eViper: A Scalable Platform for Untethered Modular Soft Robots”, 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, Y. Chen, H. Cheng, S. Wagner, M. Chen, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, “Piezoelectric Soft Robot Inchworm Motion by Controlling Ground Friction through Robot Shape,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2024).
Z. Zheng, H. Cheng, P. Kumar, S. Wagner, M. Chen, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, “Wirelessly-Controlled Untethered Piezoelectric Planar Soft Robot Capable of Bidirectional Crawling and Rotation,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, Y. Chen, H. Cheng, S. Wagner, M. Chen, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, “Scalable Simulation and Demonstration of Jumping Piezoelectric 2-D Soft Robots,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, Y. Chen, H. Cheng, S. Wagner, M. Chen, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, “Model-Based Control of Planar Piezoelectric Inchworm Soft Robot for Crawling in Constrained Environments,” 2022 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).
H. Cheng, Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, Y. Chen and M. Chen, “Hybrid-SoRo: Hybrid Switched Capacitor Power Management Architecture for Multi-Channel Piezoelectric Soft Robot,” (Outstanding Presentation Award) 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).
Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, S. Wagner, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, “Analytical Model of Locomotion of a Thin-Film Piezoelectric 2D Soft Robot Including Gravity Effects,” (Best Presentation Award) 2021 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (ICSSAM).
J. C. Sturm, Y. Mehlman, L. E. Aygun, C. Wu, Z. Zheng, P. Kumar, S. Wagner and N. Verma, “Machine Learning and High-Speed Circuitry in Thin Film Transistors for Sensor Interfacing in Hybrid Large-Area Electronic Systems (Keynote Speak),” Meeting Abstracts. No. 25. The Electrochemical Society (2019).
L. E. Aygun, P. Kumar, Z. Zheng (Co-First Author), T. S. Chen, S. Wagner, J. C. Sturm and N. Verma, "Hybrid LAE-CMOS Force-Sensing System Employing TFT-based Compressed Sensing for Scalability of Tactile Sensing Skins," (Invited paper) IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2019).
Z. Zheng, L. E. Aygun, Y. Mehlman, S. Wagner, N. Verma and J. C. Sturm, "Analyzing and Increasing Yield of ZnO Thin-Film Transistors for Large-Area Sensing Systems by Preventing Process-Induced Gate Dielectric Breakdown," 77th Device Research Conference (DRC). IEEE. (2019).
L. E. Aygun, P. Kumar, Z. Zheng (Co-First Author), T. S. Chen, S. Wagner, J. C. Sturm and N. Verma, "Hybrid System for Efficient LAE-CMOS Interfacing in Large-Scale Tactile-Sensing Skins via TFT-Based Compressed Sensing," 2019 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (pp. 280-282).
Z. Zheng, K. Chen, J. Guo, W. Gao, G. Gong, “Study on the Pressure-caused Color Variations of Liquid Crystal,” Physics Experimentation. 35, 7 (2015).
A. Adler, G. Venugopalan, J. King, M. Depa, M. Pajovic, R. Marathe and Z. Zheng, "Techniques for Multi-Parameter Sensing in Complex Mixtures Using Electrochemical Sensor Fusion," U.S. Provisional Patent Application, pending, filed Apr 24, 2026.
G. Venugopalan, R. Marathe, S. Poddar, T. Dai and Z. Zheng, "Detecting Water Contamination in an Electrolyzer Using EIS," U.S. Provisional Patent Application, pending, filed Apr 13, 2026.
Z. Zheng, S. Seidel, S. Zheng and A. Yellepeddi, "Electrochemical Monitoring System Adjustment," U.S. Patent Application 19/210,883, published, filed May 16, 2025.
Z. Zheng, L. Mentzer, M. Price, C. Prendergast and A. Cloitre, "Semantic Segmentation and Scene Integration of 3D Image Frames," U.S. Patent Application 19/095,449, published, filed Mar 31, 2025.
Z. Zheng, S. Seidel, S. Zheng and A. Yellepeddi, "Extracting Features for EIS Monitoring Systems," U.S. Patent Application 18/745,798, published, filed Jun 17, 2024.