Zhen Zhu

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Zhen Zhu is an associate professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Senior Research Engineer with the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center and an adjunct assistant professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has developed various systems and algorithms for automatic navigation and guidance of manned and unmanned aircraft. His research interests include sensor integration, vision-aided navigation, aircraft navigation, software radio and GPS receiver design, biomedical signal and image processing.

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- Experimental characterization of littoral atmospheric acoustics: concurrentmeteorological and acoustic observations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2024
- A Review on UAV Based Remote Sensing Technologies for Construction and Civil Applications. Drones. 2022
- An Error Prediction Model for Construction Bulk Measurements Using a Customized Low-Cost UAS-LIDAR System. Drones. 6. 2022
- A Robust Multi-Constellation Time-Differenced Carrier Phase Solution. GPS Solutions. 2021
- Sensitivity to Pulse Phase Duration as a Marker of Neural Health Across Cochlear Implant Recipients and Electrodes. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 2021
- Effect of pulse phase duration on forward masking and spread of excitation in cochlear implant listeners. PLOS ONE. 15. 2020
- Spectrotemporal Modulation Sensitivity in Cochlear-Implant and Normal-Hearing Listeners: Is the Performance Driven by Temporal or Spectral Modulation Sensitivity?. Trends in hearing. 24. 2020
- A Robust and Efficient 3D LADAR Odometer with Outlier Detection. Journal of Navigation. 71:317-338. 2018
- Attitude Correction Using Corner Landmarks in 3-D SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 54:923-931. 2018
- Attitude Correction Using Corner Landmarks in 3D SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. PP:1-1. 2017
- Conservative Uncertainty Estimation in Map-Based Vision-Aided Navigation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 53:941-949. 2017
- Noninvasive Quantification of Blood Flow in Epicardial Coronary Arteries, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts, and Anastomoses. Innovations. 2017
- Simulating and Quantifying Legacy Topographic Data Uncertainty: An Initial Step to Advancing Topographic Change Analyses. Progress In Earth and Planetary Science. 2017
- Simulating and quantifying legacy topographic data: an initial step to advancing topographic change analysis. Progress In Earth and Planetary Science. 4. 2017
- Risk considerations in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the construction industry. Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response. 6. 2016
- 3D LADAR Navigation with Integrity. Institute of Navigation GNSS Conf. 2015
- C/A Code Cross-Correlation at a High Doppler Offset. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 2015
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Institute of Navigation NGSS + 2022 confernce Serve as a track chair for one of the three technical tracks. This is the biggest conference in my field. 2021 - 2022
IEEE TAES IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. The top IEEE journal for aerospace engineering. 2021
Institute of Navigation software defined radio working group serving on an international committee, to set standards for the next general software GNSS satellite receiver. 2014 - 2016
IEEE roboresearch 2016 To discuss safety of UAV operations in indoors. 2016
IEEE/ION PLANS 2016 ;session chair of B4 2015
Institute of Navigation ITM ;Invited to replace Dr. Soloviev as co-chair for session A5. 2015
GPS Solutions ;This is an international journal of GPS algorithms published by Springer. ;It is very popular in the internation 2013
Navigation This is the official journal on US institute of navigation. One of the most influential journals in this industry. 2013

Background

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B.A. in English, Xi'an Jiaotong University
B.S. in Information and Communication Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Ohio University
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Ohio University

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