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Canxing Zheng is an emerging researcher working at the innovative intersection of robotics, computer vision, and food mechanics, with a particular focus on advancing meal-assisting robotic systems. His work addresses the sophisticated technical challenges involved in enabling robots to assist individuals with feeding, spanning both the physical and perceptual dimensions of this problem. Zheng's contributions span two complementary research threads. On the computational vision side, he has developed real-time instance segmentation and detection models — leveraging advanced frameworks such as improved YOLOv8 architectures — to accurately identify foods, detect faces, and assess mouth-opening degrees, capabilities essential for safe and responsive meal-assisting robots. These papers have collectively accumulated over 40 citations within just one to two years of publication, reflecting strong community interest. On the mechanical side, Zheng has pioneered the application of coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Finite Element Methods (SPH-FEM) to model the complex contact forces and motion behavior of non-Newtonian fluid-solid food interactions, directly informing robotic grasping strategies to improve food-fetching success rates. His more recent work extends into measuring meal posture and volume, further closing the loop between perception and physical manipulation in assistive robotics — a meaningful contribution toward greater independence for individuals with motor impairments.