Dian Zhang

Dian Zhang (张滇)

Associate Professor, Ph.D supervisor

Person-in-Charge, Division of Industrial Data Science

Associate Dean, School of Data Science, Lingnan University

Room G09/9, Lingnan Hub, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

(852) 2616 7510 zhangdian@ln.edu.hk

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Dian Zhang (张滇) is currently a tenured Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Lingnan University. She serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Data Science and the Head of the Division of Industrial Data Science. Her research interests span the fields of mobile computing, smart healthcare, and data analytics. To date, she has published approximately 60 papers in top international conferences and journals, with the majority being first-authored by herself or graduate students under her supervision. The total amount of research funding(PI/CI) exceeds 10 Million Yuan.

As one of the earliest researchers to pioneer device-free localization and behavior recognition technologies, she designed novel algorithms for device-free object positioning and sensing, helping to establish new research directions in the field. Her research excellence has been recognized with prestigious awards, including: 2019 Ministry of Education Natural Science Second Prize (教育部自然科学二等奖), 2022 Shenzhen Natural Science Award First Prize (深圳市自然科学一等奖), 2019 Pacific Insurance Company Academic Achievement Award.

Her work in smart dental (healthcare) received 2024 Chinese Stomatological Association Annual Conference First Prize (corresponding author)(中华口腔医学会年会一等壁报), and International Association for Dental Research Southeast Asian Division (IADR-SEA) Research award (国际牙科研究协会亚太区研究贡献奖). Due to the contribution in smart dental, she was appointed Honorary Professor by the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (ranked 2^nd globally in Dentistry by QS World University Rankings).

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Smart Healthcare Data Analytics Internet of Things Mobile Computing RFID systems Pervasive Computing Networking and Distributed Systems Wireless Sensor Networks

I am currently looking for outstanding post-doctoral and graduate students, who are interested in my research area! Please contact me by email!

Dec 20, 2024

Received the Research Award at the 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Southeast Asia Division.

Oct 15, 2024

Honored with the Outstanding Contribution Award for Undergraduate Admission by Shenzhen University.

Sep 10, 2024

Won the First Class Prize at the Annual Conference of Chinese Stomatological Association (中华口腔医学会). This is one of the highest awards in the domestic dental field.

Oct 20, 2023

Awarded as an Excellent Speaker for the “Famous Teachers Enter Middle Schools” program by Shenzhen University.

Oct 05, 2023

Selected as a Best Paper Candidate (Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award) by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

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npj DigMed

Next-generation AI framework for comprehensive oral leukoplakia evaluation and management

JingWen Li, YaFang Zhou, MengJing Zhang, John Adeoye, Jane JingYa Pu, MiMi Zhou, ChuanXia Liu, LiJie Fan, Colman McGrath, Dian Zhang, and LiWu Zheng

npj Digital Medicine, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{li2025next,
  title = {Next-generation AI framework for comprehensive oral leukoplakia evaluation and management},
  author = {Li, JingWen and Zhou, YaFang and Zhang, MengJing and Adeoye, John and Pu, Jane JingYa and Zhou, MiMi and Liu, ChuanXia and Fan, LiJie and McGrath, Colman and Zhang, Dian and Zheng, LiWu},
  journal = {npj Digital Medicine},
  volume = {8},
  number = {1},
  pages = {513},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
  doi = {10.1038/s41746-025-01885-8},
}

BIB

scDTL: enhancing single-cell RNA-seq imputation through deep transfer learning with bulk cell information

Liuyang Zhao, Landu Jiang, Yufeng Xie, JianHao Huang, Haoran Xie, Jun Tian, and Dian Zhang

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024

DOI Bib

@article{10.1093/bib/bbae555,
  author = {Zhao, Liuyang and Jiang, Landu and Xie, Yufeng and Huang, JianHao and Xie, Haoran and Tian, Jun and Zhang, Dian},
  title = {scDTL: enhancing single-cell RNA-seq imputation through deep transfer learning with bulk cell information},
  journal = {Briefings in Bioinformatics},
  volume = {25},
  number = {6},
  pages = {bbae555},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1093/bib/bbae555},
}

MICCAI

TAPoseNet: Teeth Alignment Based on Pose Estimation via Multi-scale Graph Convolutional Network

Qingxin Deng, Xunyu Yang, Minghan Huang, Landu Jiang, and Dian Zhang

In MICCAI 2024, 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-72390-2_30,
  author = {Deng, Qingxin and Yang, Xunyu and Huang, Minghan and Jiang, Landu and Zhang, Dian},
  title = {TAPoseNet: Teeth Alignment Based on Pose Estimation via Multi-scale Graph Convolutional Network},
  booktitle = {MICCAI 2024},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-72390-2_30},
}

TMC

Fine-Grained and Real-Time Gesture Recognition by Using IMU Sensors

Dian Zhang, Zexiong Liao, Wen Xie, Xiaofeng Wu, Haoran Xie, Jiang Xiao, and Landu Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023

DOI Bib

@article{9628113,
  author = {Zhang, Dian and Liao, Zexiong and Xie, Wen and Wu, Xiaofeng and Xie, Haoran and Xiao, Jiang and Jiang, Landu},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
  title = {Fine-Grained and Real-Time Gesture Recognition by Using IMU Sensors},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {22},
  number = {4},
  pages = {2177-2189},
  doi = {10.1109/TMC.2021.3120475},
}

TMC

Beyond RSS: A PRR and SNR Aided Localization System for Transceiver-Free Target in Sparse Wireless Networks

Dian Zhang, Wen Xie, Zexiong Liao, Wenzhan Zhu, Landu Jiang, and Yongpan Zou

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022

DOI Bib

@article{9369082,
  author = {Zhang, Dian and Xie, Wen and Liao, Zexiong and Zhu, Wenzhan and Jiang, Landu and Zou, Yongpan},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
  title = {Beyond RSS: A PRR and SNR Aided Localization System for Transceiver-Free Target in Sparse Wireless Networks},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {21},
  number = {11},
  pages = {3866-3879},
  doi = {10.1109/TMC.2021.3063629},
}

TPDS

RASS: A Real-Time, Accurate, and Scalable System for Tracking Transceiver-Free Objects

Dian Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Xiaonan Guo, and Lionel M. Ni

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013

DOI Bib

@article{6193097,
  author = {Zhang, Dian and Liu, Yunhuai and Guo, Xiaonan and Ni, Lionel M.},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  title = {RASS: A Real-Time, Accurate, and Scalable System for Tracking Transceiver-Free Objects},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2013},
  volume = {24},
  number = {5},
  pages = {996-1008},
  doi = {10.1109/TPDS.2012.134},
}

IEEE WC

RFID-based localization and tracking technologies

Lionel M. Ni, Dian Zhang, and Michael R. Souryal

IEEE Wireless Communications, 2011

DOI Bib

@article{5751295,
  author = {Ni, Lionel M. and Zhang, Dian and Souryal, Michael R.},
  journal = {IEEE Wireless Communications},
  title = {RFID-based localization and tracking technologies},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2011},
  volume = {18},
  number = {2},
  pages = {45-51},
  doi = {10.1109/MWC.2011.5751295},
}

PerCom

An RF-Based System for Tracking Transceiver-Free Objects

Dian Zhang, Jian Ma, Quanbin Chen, and Lionel M. Ni

In Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’07), 2007

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{4144758,
  author = {Zhang, Dian and Ma, Jian and Chen, Quanbin and Ni, Lionel M.},
  booktitle = {Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'07)},
  title = {An RF-Based System for Tracking Transceiver-Free Objects},
  organization = {IEEE},
  year = {2007},
  pages = {135-144},
  doi = {10.1109/PERCOM.2007.8},
}