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Shirong Zheng

Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2013Rising activity
Micro and Nano RoboticsAdvanced Materials and MechanicsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsCOVID-19 diagnosis using AIMolecular Communication and Nanonetworks

Publications

24

Citations

505

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2013

Research summary
AI-generated

Shirong Zheng's research focuses on designing tiny, magnetically or chemically controlled robots and soft materials for medical use, such as delivering drugs, treating tumors, and exploring the digestive tract with capsule-sized devices. More recent work also applies machine learning and deep learning tools to medical problems like diagnosis from images or clinical text, and to broader engineering optimization tasks. The work spans materials science, robotics, and applied computing rather than a single narrow subfield.

Micro/millirobots for biomedical applicationsMagnetically and stimuli-responsive soft materialsDrug delivery and cancer therapy devicesMachine learning and deep learning for diagnosis and imagingSensors and imaging for medical monitoring

Publication output was low or absent in the mid-2010s, began increasing around 2020-2022, and grew sharply in 2025, indicating a recent and fast-growing output rather than a long steady record.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.0/year recently
1718192020: 2 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 4 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 10 publications10252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Advanced Functional Materials×2
  • Preprints.org×2
  • Science Advances×1
  • ACS Nano×1
  • Biosensors×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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