{"id":2551,"date":"2026-02-28T03:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/people\/antonio-hendricks-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:32:18","slug":"zhaoqi_wang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/people\/zhaoqi_wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhaoqi Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I joined the Smart Systems Lab as a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Bobda. I received my B.S. from<a href=\"https:\/\/en.usst.edu.cn\/\"> the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology<\/a> in power and mechanical engineering , and later transitioned into Electrical and Computer Engineering for my M.S. My research centers on real-time, on-board intelligence for UAV systems, with an emphasis on efficient image processing, hardware acceleration, and scene understanding in complex environments. I am also broadly interested in bringing modern AI\u2014especially lightweight LLM capabilities\u2014onto resource-constrained edge platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/685\/2026\/02\/Image-4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2473\" style=\"width:391px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Real-Time On-Board Image Processing, Embedded Vision, FPGA\/SoC Acceleration, Edge AI, On-Device LLM Acceleration, UAV Scene Understanding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coursework<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>System-on-Chip Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reconfigurable Computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Architecture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fundamentals of Machine Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 235px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;text-align: center;height: 23px\">\n<pre>Papers<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;text-align: center;height: 23px\">\n<pre>Citations<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;text-align: center;height: 23px\">\n<pre>Year<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 97px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;height: 97px\">\n<pre><a class=\"gsc_a_at\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10578300\">Exploring the Limitations and Implications of the JIGSAWS Dataset for Robot-Assisted Surgery<\/a> <br \/> <br \/>A. Hendricks, M. Panoff, K. Xiao, <strong>Z. Wang<\/strong>, S. Wang and C. Bobda <em>IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024<\/em>, doi.org\/10.1109\/LRA.2024.3421190<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;height: 97px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>4<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;height: 97px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>2024<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;height: 23px\">\n<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11113598\">A High-Efficiency Dual-Channel Pixel Processor for Event-Based Camera<\/a><br \/><br \/><strong>Z. Wang<\/strong>, M. He, Y. Feng and C. Bobda, IESS 2024, doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-032-07102-6_3<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>0<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>2025<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;height: 23px\">\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/Bio-Inspired Event Cameras for Robust Edge System in Challenging Environments Z. Wang, W. A. Fortney and C. Bobda, 2025 IEEE 36th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2025, pp. 131\u2013138, doi: 10.1109\/ASAP65064.2025.00030.\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Bio-Inspired Event Cameras for Robust Edge System in Challenging Environments<\/a><br \/><br data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"133\" \/><strong>Z. Wang<\/strong>, W. A. Fortney and C. Bobda, <em data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"280\" data-is-only-node=\"\">2025 IEEE 36th ASAP<\/em>, doi: 10.1109\/ASAP65064.2025.00030.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>0<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>2025<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;height: 23px\">\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/CIVIC-FPGA: A Trusted FPGA Design Validation by Multi-Tenant Cloud Providers Y. Feng, Z. Wang and C. Bobda, Proceedings of the 2025 ACM\/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA \u201925), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025, pp. 139\u2013145, doi: 10.1145\/3706628.3708826.\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">CIVIC-FPGA: A Trusted FPGA Design Validation by Multi-Tenant Cloud Providers<\/a><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"80\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><br \/><\/strong><br data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"83\" \/>Y. Feng, <strong>Z. Wang<\/strong> and C. Bobda, <em data-start=\"114\" data-end=\"218\">FPGA \u201925<\/em>, doi: 10.1145\/3706628.3708826.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>0<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>2025<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 79.7999%;height: 23px\">\n<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isqed.org\/\">Real-Time Edge Semantics for Drone Swarms via FPGA Perception and On-Device LLMs<\/a><br \/><br \/><strong>Z. Wang<\/strong>, Y. Feng, W. A. Fortney, G. Bendix, P. O. Forcha and C. Bobda, <em data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"328\" data-is-only-node=\"\">to appear in Proceedings of the ISQED,<\/em> 2026.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0032%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>0<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.1968%;height: 23px;text-align: center\">\n<pre>2026<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-8367-7952\">ORCiD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=zh-CN&amp;user=x2KEo-YAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>6200 Malachowsky Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> wangzhaoqi@ufl.edu<br><strong>LinkedIn:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhaoqi-wang-134610270\">www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhaoqi-wang-134610270<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography I joined the Smart Systems Lab as a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Bobda. 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