Zhihua Tian

AI Researcher | Healthcare AI & Large Language Models

Master's candidate in Operations Research at Nankai University, specializing in developing robust and interpretable AI for Healthcare.

About Me

My research focuses on developing AI solutions for healthcare challenges

I am a Master of Science candidate in Operations Research at Nankai University, advised by Prof. Jianda Han and Prof. Weiguang Huo. My research focuses on AI4Healthcare, Computer Vision, LLMs.

I have contributed to several national research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China project on "Cooperative Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons for Complex Gait Prediction and Assistance" and the National Key Research and Development Program of China project on "Efficient Human-Machine Synergistic Control via Neuro-Muscular-Skeletal Integration".

AI4Healthcare
Computer Vision
Large Language Models
Multimodal Learning

Research Highlights

Key projects and research contributions

AI-based Assessment of Parkinson's Gait Impairments

Developed a patented, expert-level deep learning framework to predict Parkinson's severity from smartphone videos. This system successfully distinguishes subtle medication effects at a physician-level resolution and discovers novel digital biomarkers sensitive to disease progression.

AUC: 0.87, F1: 0.806
73.68% medication effect discrimination
Smartphone video-based assessment
Clinician-level performance
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Video-Based Detection of Freezing of Gait (FoG)

Proposed the IMU2SKE framework to accurately predict Freezing of Gait (FoG) from monocular videos. Leveraged IMU-guided hierarchical contrastive learning to significantly enhance prediction accuracy from 79.5% to 83.2%.

Accuracy improved from 79.5% to 83.2%
Cross-modal learning approach
IMU-guided contrastive learning

LLM Optimization and Application in Healthcare

Enhanced VLM geometric reasoning (Qwen2-VL-7B) by building a 3,000-pair image-text dataset for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), achieving an 18% accuracy increase. Developed inference acceleration techniques using SFT and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO).

18% accuracy increase in geometric reasoning
8x token compression with 3% accuracy reduction
Medical appointment and dietary advisor agents

Publications & Patents

Deep learning-enabled accurate assessment of gait impairments in Parkinson's disease using smartphone videos

Jianda Han#, Zhihua Tian (co-first author)#, Jialing Wu#, Kai Zhang, Shaohua Li, Fahd Baig, Peipei Liu, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Francesca Morgante, Weiguang Huo*

npj Digital Medicine (IF=15.1, SCI, JCR Q1, Rank 1/188 in Health Care Sciences & Services)

Journal Article Co-First Author High Impact

IMU2SKE: Hierarchical Contrastive Learning-Empowered Video-Based Detection of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Zhihua Tian, Yanwei Zhao, Jianda Han, Weiguang Huo*

2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems

Conference Paper First Author

Monocular Video-based Abnormal Gait Assessment Method and System

Weiguang Huo, Peipei Liu, Jialing Wu, Jianda Han, Zhihua Tian (first student author)

China Invention Patent, 202511317738.5

Patent First Student Author

Experience

Academic and professional journey

2023-Present

Master of Operations Research & Control Theory

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Advised by Prof. Jianda Han and Prof. Weiguang Huo. GPA: 88.99/100

2025

AI Research Intern

Tianjin Andon Co., Ltd., Tianjin, China

Built a voice appointment agent and a dietary comment LLM (Base: Qwen2.5-VL-7B) to improve efficiency for medical staff.

2023

Algorithm Engineer

Huawei Hangzhou Research Institute, Hangzhou, China

Developed a high-definition portrait generation system (Unreal Engine MetaHuman) and improved model accuracy using diffusion models (DDPM) for data generation.

2021-2022

Algorithm Engineer

Hangzhou Alltuu Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China

Developed human body/face beauty model and algorithm, with several models and algorithms serving 2M+ photographers.

2017-2021

Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology

Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China

GPA: 3.67/4.0

Technical Skills

Areas of expertise and technical competencies

Programming & Frameworks

  • Python
  • C/C++
  • CUDA
  • PyTorch
  • ONNX
  • Docker

AI & Machine Learning

  • Computer Vision
  • Large Language Models
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Contrastive Learning
  • Knowledge Distillation

Tools & Platforms

  • Linux
  • Git
  • Unreal Engine
  • Blender
  • AutoGen

Research Areas

  • Healthcare AI
  • Parkinson's Disease Assessment
  • Gait Analysis
  • Digital Biomarkers

Awards & Honors

Recognition for academic and research excellence

Alibaba Tianchi ModelScope-Sora Challenge

4/347 teams (top 2%)

Third place in the competitive AI challenge focused on video generation and understanding.

Chinese Operations Research Society Competition

First Prize (Top 3%)

Recognition for excellence in operations research and optimization methodologies.

Nankai University Scholarships

Multiple Awards

Academic Competition Special Scholarship (Top 10%) and Second-class Gongneng Scholarship (Top 20%).

Huawei Ascend AI Innovation Competition

Bronze Award

Recognition for innovative AI solutions in the Huawei Ascend ecosystem.

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