Research Assistant

E-Mail	mingchuan.zhou@in.tum.de
Room	MI 03.07.042
Phone	+49.89.289.18111
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Homepage	http://www6.in.tum.de/Main/zhoum

Curriculum Vitæ

My research topic now includes robot-assisted technologies for vitreo-retinal ophthalmologic surgery and optical coherence tomography (i-OCT) Image processing.

2015.10 - present	Research Assistant at Institut für Informatik VI, Technische Universität München
2015.06 - 2015.06	System Engineer in DJI, China
2012.09 - 2015.03	M.Eng. in Agricultural Mechanization Engineering at Zhejiang University, China
2008.09 - 2012.06	B.Eng. in Agricultural Mechanization Engineering at Northeast Agricultural University, China

Awards:

Finalist of Best Conference Paper Award in IEEE-ROBIO 2017

Thesis Topics:

If you are interested in the following topics, please feel free to contact me.

Proposal:
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 1: Cooperative Control Algorithm Design for Ophthalmic Microsurgical Robot.
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 2: The Needle Detection and Reconstruction Based on OCT image with GPU Acceleration.
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 3: ICP(iterative closest point) Algorithm for Incomplete Needle Point Cloud Matching with CAD Model.
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 4: Genetic Algorithm for Hard Real-time Thermal-aware Scheduling on Hardware Platform.
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 5: The Needle Detection and Reconstruction Based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 6: Machine Learning for the Ophthalmic Surgical Robot Path Planning under Optical Coherence Tomography Image Navigation.
- Bachelor, Master Thesis: Topic 7: High Precision Stereo Tracking System Design – Microsurgical Tools for Ophthalmic Surgery.

On going:
- Mohamad Ayad: Robot Learns Ophthalmic Surgery based on micro stereo vision system.(Master Thesis)
- Anh Tuan Pham: The Needle Detection and Reconstruction Based on OCT image with GPU Acceleration.(Bachelor Thesis)
- Simeon Mahov: Real-time Controller Design for Ophthalmic Micro-surgical Robot.(Master Thesis)
- Prashant Kumar: Needle-tip Recognition and Segmentation for Subretinal injection in OCT images with CNN.(Master Thesis)
- Xiaoting Qi: Performace Enhancement using Sensor Data Fusion for a Localization System based on Ultra Wideband.(Master Thesis)

Finished
- Ankit Gupta: The Retina Surface Reconstruction from Real-time Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography (i-OCT) Images.(Master Thesis. May 2017)
- Simon Schlegl: The Needle Detection and Reconstruction Based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).(Bachelor Thesis. Mar 2017)
- Clemens Zuck: Augment Reality for Subretinal Injection with Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography (i-OCT) Images.(Bachelor Thesis. Jul 2017)
- Manuel Dellantonio: Genetic Algorithm for Hard Real-time Thermal-aware Scheduling on Hardware Platform.(Bachelor Thesis. Jul 2017)
- Ramona Schneider: Needle Reconstruction Based on Deep Learning.(Master Thesis. Nov. 2017)
- Anna Baumeister: Ophthalmic Surgical Robot Path Planning for Subretinal Injection using V-rep.(Bachelor Thesis. Dec 2017)
- Mahdi Hamad: Ophthalmic Surgical Robot Hand-Eye Calibration with Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography (i-OCT) Images.(Master Thesis. Feb 2018)

Teaching and Experience

Robot-assisted Surgery in Clinics (WS 2016)
Robot-assisted Surgery in Clinics (SS 2017)

Publications

[1]	Mingchuan Zhou, Kai Huang, Abouzar Eslami, Hessam Roodaki, Daniel Zapp, Mathias Maier, Chris P. Lohmann, Alois Knoll, and M. Ali Nasseri. Precision needle tip localization using optical coherence tomography images for subretinal injection, to be appear. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), May 2018. [ .bib ]
[2]	Mingchuan Zhou, Kai Huang, Abouzar Eslami, Daniel Zapp, Haotian Lin, Mathias Maier, Chris P. Lohmann, Alois Knoll, and M. Ali Nasseri. Beveled needle position and pose estimation based on optical coherence tomography in ophthalmic microsurgery. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, December 2017. [ .bib ]
[3]	Mingchuan Zhou, Hessam Roodaki, Abouzar Eslami, Guang Chen, Kai Huang, Mathias Maier, Chris P. Lohmann, Alois Knoll, and M. Ali Nasseri. Needle segmentation in volumetric optical coherence tomography images for ophthalmic microsurgery. In Applied Sciences, July 2017. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Jinzhu Lu, Mingchuan Zhou, Yingwang Gao, and Huanyu Jiang. Using hyperspectral imaging to discriminate yellow leaf curl disease in tomato leaves. Precision Agriculture, pages 1-16, 2017. [ .bib ]
[5]	Kai Huang, Mingchuan Zhou, Carolina Lajblich, Chris P. Lohmann, Alois Knoll, Yehua Ling, Haotian Lin, and M. Ali Nasseri. A flexible head fixation for ophthalmic microsurgery. In 2017 Chinese Automation Congress (CAC), 2017. [ .bib ]
[6]	Zhuohua Jiang, Mingchuan Zhou, Junhua Tong, Huanyu Jiang, Yefeng Yang, Aichen Wang, and Zhaohong You. Comparing an ant colony algorithm with a genetic algorithm for replugging tour planning of seedling transplanter. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 113:225-233, 2015. [ .bib ]

Mingchuan Zhou