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Research in tactile sensing, geometric reconstruction, and machine learning.

Zilang Chen · University of Pennsylvania

2026

Zero-Shot Deformation Reconstruction for Soft Robots Using a Flexible Sensor Array and Cage-Based 3D Gaussian Modeling

Linrui Shou · Zilang Chen · Wenjia Xu · Yiyue Luo · Tingyu Cheng

Accepted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026 — June 16, 2026

A camera-free framework that maps real-time tactile signals from a flexible piezoresistive sensor array to cage-controlled 3D Gaussian deformation. The current public arXiv version reports zero-shot reconstruction on unseen soft robots without robot-specific retraining.

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2025

Wine Quality Prediction with Ensemble Trees: A Unified, Leak-Free Comparative Study

Zilang Chen

IPMLP 2025 · Proceedings published by ACM · July 12, 2025

A unified, leakage-free comparison of Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost on 6,497 Vinho Verde samples. Gradient Boosting achieved the highest weighted F1 scores, while Random Forest offered the strongest accuracy–efficiency trade-off.

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