Zichen Zhang

Let me introduce myself first. I'm Zichen Zhang. I'm currently a sixth-year PhD candidate at the Ohio State University. I study in the department of Computer Science and Engineering under the supervision of Professor Christopher Stewart. In 2018, I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University. 

My research boosts use-inspired data science with machine learning, especially in the field of digital agriculture. My field of study includes creating novel methods for hypothesis-driven data collection, designing specialized deep learning architectures for data modeling, making explainable explorations for machine learning models, and developing energy-efficient design of data-driven systems.

I am looking for full-time jobs that will complement my experience in applied machine learning, data-driven automated system designs, computer vision, data analysis, image processing, and distributed systems.

• Zhang, Zichen, Sami Khanal, Amy Raudenbush, Kelley Tilmon, and Christopher Stewart. ”Assessing the efficacy of machine learning techniques to characterize soybean defoliation from unmanned aerial vehicles.” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 193 (2022): 106682.

• Zhang, Zichen, Jayson Boubin, Christopher Stewart, and Sami Khanal. ”Whole-field reinforcement learning: A fully autonomous aerial scouting method for precision agriculture.” Sensors 20, no. 22 (2020): 6585.

• Boubin, Jayson, Zichen Zhang, John Chumley, and Christopher Stewart. ”Data-Parallel Versus Task-Parallel Swarms for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems.” In 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), pp. 28-29. IEEE, 2022.

• Boubin, Jayson, Zichen Zhang, John Chumley, and Christopher Stewart. "Adaptive Deployment for Autonomous Agricultural UAV Swarms." In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, pp. 1089-1095. 2022. 

• Irizarry, Kevyn Angueira, Zichen Zhang, Christopher Stewart, and Jayson Boubin. "Scalable distributed microservices for autonomous UAV swarms." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Middleware Conference Demos and Posters, pp. 1-2. 2022. 

• Boubin, Jayson, Christopher Stewart, Shiqi Zhang, N. T. Babu, and Zichen Zhang. ”Softwarepilot.” (2019).

• Boubin, Jayson, Zichen Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, and Christopher Stewart. ”SoftwarePilot: An Open Source Middleware for Fully Autonomous Aerial Systems.”