Jack (Haoying) Zhou

Jack (Haoying) Zhou

周昊英

he/him

Surgical Robotics Infrastructure, Control,

Simulation and AI

Visiting Graduate Scholar at JHU

Robotics Ph.D. Candidate at WPI

Publications

A comprehensive list of my peer-reviewed publications. Click on the links to access the full papers / code repositories / websites.

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

Robot-Assisted Suturing in Surgical Simulation: A Comparative Analysis between NVIDIA’s Simulator and an Open Platform
Kim, T. W., Zhou, H., Barragan, J. A., Ishida, H., Deguet, A., Kazanzides, P., & Munawar, A.
Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2026
[Paper]
Intraoperative Laparoscopic Photoacoustic Image Guidance System in the da Vinci Surgical System
Gao, S., Wang, Y., Ma, X., Zhou, H., Jiang, Y., Yang, K., Lu, L., Wang, S., Nephew, B. C., Fichera, L., Fischer, G. S., & Zhang, H. K.
Biomedical Optics Express, 2023
[Paper]
Development and Evaluation of a Markerless 6 DOF Pose Tracking Method for a Suture Needle from a Robotic Endoscope
Jiang, Y., Zhou, H., & Fischer, G. S.
Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2023
[Paper]

Conference Papers

SurgSync: Time-Synchronized Multi-modal Data Collection Framework and Dataset for Surgical Robotics
Zhou, H.*, Liu, C.*, Wu, Y., Wu, J., Wu, Z., Lee, Y. C., Martuscelli, S., Salcudean, S. E., Fischer, G. S., & Kazanzides, P.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 Under Review
[Website Coming Soon] [arXiv Coming Soon] [Code Coming Soon] [Dataset Coming Soon]
Gravity Compensation of the dVRK-Si Patient Side Manipulator Based on Dynamic Model Identification
Zhou, H., Yang, H., Deguet, A., Fichera, L., Wu, J. Y., & Kazanzides, P.
The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR), 2025 oral presentation
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
SurgPose: A Dataset for Articulated Robotic Surgical Tool Pose Estimation and Tracking
Wu, Z., Schmidt, A., Moore, R., Zhou, H., Banks, A., Kazanzides, P., & Salcudean, S. E.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
[Website] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset]
Surgical Robotics Environment in NVIDIA Isaac Sim for Robot-Assisted Suturing
Kim, T. W., Zhou, H., Barragan, J. A., Ishida, H., Kazanzides, P., & Munawar, A.
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2025
[Paper] [Code]
An Augmented Reality Measurement Tool for the da Vinci Research Kit
Wang, S.*, Wang, J. F.*, Koh, Y.*, Zhou, H., Deguet, A., & Kazanzides, P.
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2025
[Paper] [Code]
FIRE-3DV: Framework-Independent Rendering Engine for 3D Graphics Using Vulkan
Allison, C. J., Zhou, H., Munawar, A., Kazanzides, P., & Barragan, J. A.
IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2024
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
SurgicAI: A Hierarchical Platform for Fine-Grained Surgical Policy Learning and Benchmarking
Wu, J., Zhou, H., Kazanzides, P., Munawar, A., & Liu, A.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
Loss Distillation via Gradient Matching for Point Cloud Completion with Weighted Chamfer Distance
Lin, F.*, Liu, H.*, Zhou, H.*, Hou, S.*, Yamada, K. D., Fischer, G. S., Li, Y., Zhang, H. K., & Zhang, Z.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
A Hybrid Model and Learning-Based Force Estimation Framework for Surgical Robots
Yang, H., Zhou, H., Fischer, G. S., & Wu, J. Y.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
[Paper] [arXiv]
Suturing Tasks Automation Based on Skills Learned From Demonstrations: A Simulation Study
Zhou, H., Jiang, Y., Gao, S., Wang, S., Kazanzides, P., & Fischer, G. S.
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2024
[Paper] [arXiv]
Realistic Data Generation for 6D Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments
Barragan, J. A., Zhang, J., Zhou, H., Munawar, A., & Kazanzides, P.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
[Website] [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset]
Markerless Suture Needle Tracking from a Robotic Endoscope Based on Deep Learning
Jiang, Y., Zhou, H., & Fischer, G. S.
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2023
[Paper]
Laparoscopic Photoacoustic Imaging System Integrated with the da Vinci Surgical System
Gao, S., Wang, Y., Zhou, H., Yang, K., Jiang, Y., Lu, L., Wang, S., Ma, X., Nephew, B. C., Fichera, L., Fischer, G. S., & Zhang, H. K.
SPIE Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2023
[Paper]
A sEMG Proportional Control for the Gripper of Patient Side Manipulator in da Vinci Surgical System
Yang, K., Meier, T. B., Zhou, H., Fischer, G. S., & Nycz, C. J.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2022
[Paper]
Control of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton Using Learning from Demonstration and an Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator Controller: A Simulation Study
Goldfarb, N., Zhou, H., Bales, C., & Fischer, G. S.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021
[Paper]
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