Yuxiang (Ricky) Zhang

Ricky holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a specialization in advanced data science and machine learning methodologies. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Implantable Biosensing Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, he focuses on developing novel machine learning algorithms to derive tissue perfusion from near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements.

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington (2019–2023)

  • M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington (2017–2019)

  • B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Drexel University (2014–2017)

Current Projects

  • Developing and testing advanced signal processing methods for using NIRS to calculate and monitor spinal cord perfusion parameters.

  • Designing machine learning and deep learning algorithms to integrate multi-modal data and refine NIRS-derived metrics.

Interests

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Signal Processing, Data Science)