Introduction

Wenlu Zhang is currently an assistant professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at California State University Long Beach. Before joinging CSULB, she was a post-doc in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University. Zhang obtained her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in 2016, advised by Prof. Shuiwang Ji. Her research interests include machine learning, data mining, computational biology, and computational neuroscience.

Publications

2018

• Ben A Duffy, Wenlu Zhang, Haoteng Tang, Lu Zhao, Meng Law, Arthur W Toga, Hosung Kim
Retrospective correction of motion artifact affected structural MRI images using deep learning of simulated motion
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning(MIDL), 2018

2017

• Wenlu Zhang, Rongjian Li, Tao Zeng, Qian Sun, Sudhir Kumar, Jieping Ye, and Shuiwang Ji
Deep Model Based Transfer and Multi-Task Learning for Biological Image Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2017

• Wenlu Zhang, Yongjun Chen, Hongyang Gao, Hanchuan Peng, Ian Davidson, and Suiwang Ji
Deep Encoder-Decoder Networks for 3D Neuron Segmentation and Reconstruction from Optical Microscopy Images, BioImage Informatics, 2017

• Tao Zeng, Wenlu Zhang, and Shuiwang Ji
Deep Learning Methods for Neurite Segmentation and Synaptic Cleft Detection from EM Images, BioImage Informatics, 2017

2016

• Wenlu Zhang A Computational Framework for Learning from Complex Data: Formulations, Algorithms, and Applications PhD Dissertation, Old Dominion University, 2016

2015

• Wenlu Zhang, Rongjian Li, Tao Zeng, Qian Sun, Sudhir Kumar, Jieping Ye, and Shuiwang Ji Deep Model Based Transfer and Multi-Task Learning for Biological Image Analysis The 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015

• Wenlu Zhang, Rongjian Li, Houtao Deng, Li Wang, Wenli Lin, Shuiwang Ji and Dinggang Shen
Deep convolutional neural networks for multi-modality isointense infant brain image segmentation
NeuroImage, 108:214-224, 2015 (5-Yr Impact Factor: 6.956 )

2014

• Rongjian Li, Wenlu Zhang, Yao Zhao, Zhenfeng Zhu, and Shuiwang Ji
Sparsity Learning Formulations for Mining Time-Varying Data IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (TKDE), Accepted, 2014

• Wenlu Zhang, Rongjian Li , Daming Feng, Andrey Chernikov, Nikos Chrisochoides, Christopher Osgood, and Shuiwang Ji
Evolutionary Soft Co-Clustering: Formulations, Algorithms, and Applications
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), Accepted, 2014

• Rongjian Li, Wenlu Zhang, Heung-Il Suk, Li Wang, Jiang Li, Dinggang Shen, and Shuiwang Ji
Deep Learning Based Imaging Data Completion for Improved Brain Disease Diagnosis
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2014

• Rongjian Li, Wenlu Zhang, and Shuiwang Ji
Automated identification of cell-type-specific genes in the mouse brain by image computing of expression patterns
BMC Bioinformatics, 15:209, 2014.

2013

• Wenlu Zhang, Daming Feng, Rongjian Li, Andrey Chernikov, Nikos Chrisochoides, Christopher Osgood, Charlotte Konikoff, Stuart Newfeld, Sudhir Kumar, and Shuiwang Ji
A mesh generation and machine learning framework for Drosophila gene expression pattern image analysis
BMC Bioinformatics, 14:372, 2013.

• Shuiwang Ji, Wenlu Zhang, and Rongjian Li
A Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis Model for Co-Clustering the Mouse Brain Atlas
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 10(6):1460-1468, 2013.

• Wenlu Zhang, Shuiwang Ji and Rui Zhang
Evolutionary Soft Co-Clustering
The 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013), 121-129, 2013.

2012

• Shuiwang Ji, Wenlu Zhang, and Jun Liu
A Sparsity-Inducing Formulation for Evolutionary Co-Clustering
The Eighteenth ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2012), 334-342, 2012.

People

Faculty

• Dr. Wenlu Zhang

Undergraduate Students

• Adrian Campos
• Fair Aboshehwa
• Matt Buchholz

M.S. Students

• Anthony Martinez
• Vincent Cheong

Visiting Students

• Akira Sekizawa - Tokyo Denki University

Alumni

• Anthony Sanchez (Spring 2019) - Machine Learning Engineer, MeetKai
• Chanon Chantaduly (Spring 2018) - AI Programmer, UCI Medical Center
• Daniel Kim (Spring 2019) - Android Developer, MeetKai

Seminars

Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation

by Anthony Sanchez
PowerpointGoing Deeper with Convolutions

ImageNet Classificationwith Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

by Patrapee Pongtana
Powerpoint

VeryDeep Convolutional Networksfor Large-ScaleImage Recognition

by Vincent Cheong
Powerpoint

Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks

by Patrapee Pongtana
PowerpointVisualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks

Going Deeper with Convolutions

by Anthony Martinez
PowerpointGoing Deeper with Convolutions

Recurrent Encoder Decoder Presentation

by Chanon Chantaduly
Powerpoint

U-Net: Convolution Network for Segmentation

by Chanon Chantaduly
Powerpoint

Faster RCNN

by Anthony Martinez
Powerpoint

Pixel RNN

by Andrew Fung
Powerpoint

Code

Github