Journal

1. Zhi Zheng, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Robot-mediated Imitation Skill Training for Children with Autism.” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. (preprint, DOI:10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2475724)
2. Warren, Zachary, Zhi Zheng, Shuvajit Das, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Brief Report: Development of a Robotic Intervention Platform for Young Children with ASD.” Journal of autism and developmental disorders (2014): 1-7.
3. Bekele, Esubalew, Julie Crittendon, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Assessing the Utility of a Virtual Environment for Enhancing Facial Affect Recognition in Adolescents with Autism.” Journal of autism and developmental disorders 44, no. 7 (2014): 1641-1650.
4. Warren, Zachary E., Zhi Zheng, Amy R. Swanson, Esubalew Bekele, Lian Zhang, Julie A. Crittendon, Amy F. Weitlauf, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Can Robotic Interaction Improve Joint Attention Skills?” Journal of autism and developmental disorders (2013): 1-9.
5. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Julie Crittendon, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Understanding how adolescents with autism respond to facial expressions in virtual reality environments.” Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on 19, no. 4 (2013): 711-720.
6. Jiao, Licheng, Maoguo Gong, Shuang Wang, Biao Hou, Zhi Zheng, and Qiaodi Wu. “Natural and remote sensing image segmentation using memetic computing.” Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE 5, no. 2 (2010): 78-91.

Book Chapter

1. Zhi Zheng, Esubalew Bekele, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar, “The Impact of Robots on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ” Autism Imaging and Devices, Taylor & Francis, 2015. (in press)

Conference Proceedings

1. Zhi Zheng, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. ” Robot-mediated Mixed Gesture Imitation Skill Training for Young Children with ASD.” In Advanced Robotics (ICAR), IEEE International Conference on, 2015.
2. Zhi Zheng, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar. “Design of a Computer-assisted System for Teaching Attentional Skills to Toddlers with Autism.”  The 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2015. (Best Paper Award)
3. Zhi Zheng, Shuvajit Das, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Autonomous robot-mediated imitation learning for children with autism.” In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 2707-2712. IEEE, 2014.
4. Bekele, Esubalew, Joshua W. Wade, Dayi Bian, Lian Zhang, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Medha Sarkar, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Multimodal Interfaces and Sensory Fusion in VR for Social Interactions.” In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Virtual and Augmented Environments, pp. 14-24. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
5. Bekele, Esubalew, Dayi Bian, Zhi Zheng, Joel Peterman, Sohee Park, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Responses during Facial Emotional Expression Recognition Tasks Using Virtual Reality and Static IAPS Pictures for Adults with Schizophrenia.” In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality, pp. 225-235. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
6. Zhi Zheng, Lian Zhang, Esubalew Bekele, Amy Swanson, Julie A. Crittendon, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Impact of robot-mediated interaction system on joint attention skills for children with autism.” In Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2013. (Best student paper nomination)
7. Bekele, Esubalew, Mary Young, Zhi Zheng, Lian Zhang, Amy Swanson, Rebecca Johnston, Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “A step towards adaptive multimodal virtual social interaction platform for children with autism.” In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity, pp. 464-473. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
8. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Virtual reality-based facial expressions understanding for teenagers with autism.” In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity, pp. 454-463. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
9. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Uttama Lahiri, Amy Swanson., Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar. (2012). Design of a novel virtual reality-based autism intervention system for facial emotional expressions identification. In The 9th International conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies.
10. Zhi Zheng, Maoguo Gong, Jingjing Ma, Licheng Jiao, and Qiaodi Wu. “Unsupervised evolutionary clustering algorithm for mixed type data.” In Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2010 IEEE Congress on, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2010.

Conference Abstract

1. Zhi Zheng, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar. “3-D Social Attention Training for Young Children with ASD” International meeting for autism research, 2016. (accepted)
2. Zhi Zheng, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar. “A 3-D learning environment for infants and toddlers at-risk for ASD: Can technology improve early social communication vulnerabilities?” International meeting for autism research, 2015.

Workshop paper

1. Zhi Zheng, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar. “A Fully Autonomous Robotic System for Training Attentional Skills to Toddlers with ASD” International Workshop on Intervention of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a Humanoid Robot, 2015.