Zheyuan Zhang

PhD Student at Purdue Biomedical Engineering | AI for Surgical Video Analysis

Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Area

About

I am a PhD student at Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and surgical care. My research develops AI-powered tools that turn operative video into scalable, actionable performance feedback for surgeons, in close collaboration with clinicians at the Indiana University School of Medicine. I am a 2026 Bottorff Graduate Fellow and have published in venues including npj Digital Medicine, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE ISMAR. My long-term goal is to help bring AI-driven surgical technologies from research prototypes into routine clinical use.

Experience

  • Graduate Researcher at 美国普渡大学
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Developing AI-powered tools for scalable surgical performance feedback from operative video, in close collaboration with surgical faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine. My work combines large language models and human-centered design to make routine performance feedback feasible for surgeons.

  • Graduate Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University
    May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Developed augmented reality enhancements for arthroscopic surgery using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with instant-ngp acceleration. Designed calibration and tracking methodologies for arthroscopic tools to expand the surgical field of view. Conducted user studies to evaluate visualization effectiveness in surgical settings.