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Zhihua Tian

M.Sc. Candidate, Nankai University

I am currently a Master of Science candidate in Operations Research at Nankai University, advised by Prof. Jianda Han and Prof. Weiguang Huo. Prior to this, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Biography

My research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Healthcare. I am particularly interested in developing robust and interpretable AI systems for disease diagnosis and human-machine interaction.

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Publications

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Jianda Han#, Zhihua Tian#, Jialing Wu#, Kai Zhang, Shaohua Li, Fahd Baig, Peipei Liu, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Francesca Morgante, Weiguang Huo
npj Digital Medicine | Nov 2025 IF=15.1
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Zhihua Tian, Yanwei Zhao, Jianda Han, Weiguang Huo
2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS) | Aug 2025
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Monocular Video-based Abnormal Gait Assessment Method and System
Weiguang Huo, Peipei Liu, Jialing Wu, Jianda Han, Zhihua Tian
China Invention Patent, 202511317738.5

Experience

Research Experience

Large Language Model Research & Development
Jul 2024 - Present
VLM Geometric Reasoning Enhancement: Constructed a multimodal dataset of 3,000 image-text pairs to enhance Qwen2-VL-7B. Applied Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to improve geometric proof analysis, achieving an 18% accuracy improvement.
Operations Research LLM: Distilled knowledge from Deepseek R1 into a 1.5B parameter model for operations research modeling. Through SFT, the model surpassed GPT-4 by 27% on NL4OPT and 5% on MAMO EasyLP.
LLM Inference Acceleration (CoT Compression): Optimized financial reasoning chains using SFT with compressed CoT and GRPO. Successfully reduced token consumption to 1/8 of the original with only a 3% marginal drop in accuracy.
Accurate Assessment of Parkinson’s Gait Impairments using Smartphone Videos
Sep 2023 - Nov 2025

Developed a patented, expert-level deep learning framework (AUC=0.87, F1=0.806) to predict Parkinson’s severity from smartphone videos. This system successfully distinguishes subtle medication (on/off) effects (73.68% acc.) at a physician-level resolution and discovers novel digital biomarkers sensitive to disease progression.

Video-Based Detection of Freezing of Gait (FoG) in Parkinson’s Disease
Jan 2025 - Oct 2025

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%.

Industry Experience

Tianjin Andon Co., Ltd. | AI Research Intern
Tianjin, China | Mar 2025 - May 2025

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

Hangzhou Huawei Co., Ltd. | Algorithm Engineer
Hangzhou, China | Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

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

Hangzhou Alltuu Co., Ltd. | Algorithm Engineer
Hangzhou, China | Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

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

Projects Demo

Internship

Voice Appointment Agent

Tianjin Andon Co., Ltd.
AutoGen ASR & TTS

Developed a real-time, interruptible Voice Appointment Agent leveraging ASR, TTS, and AutoGen function calling.

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Research Demo

Gait Analysis System

npj Digital Medicine
Deep Learning Computer Vision

A deep learning-enabled system for accurate assessment of gait impairments in Parkinson's disease.

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Awards

2024
3rd Place (Top 2%), Alibaba Tianchi ModelScope-Sora Challenge
2024
First Prize, Chinese Operations Research Society Competition
2024
Bronze Award, Huawei Ascend AI Innovation Competition
2023
Top 10% Academic Scholarship, Nankai University

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