Hi there! I am Ruirui Zhong, a Ph.D. student at State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where I am supervised by Prof. Yixiong Feng.
From November 2024, I have been conducting a visiting Ph.D. study at the IPU Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Xi Vincent Wang and Prof. Lihui Wang.
My research interests focus on Human-robot Collaboration, Digital Twin, and Smart Manufacturing.
Updates
- Jul 2025 I am honored to be invited to serve as a session chair at the IFAC MIM 2025!
- Jul 2025 One collaborative review paper about Digital Twin and Assembly Precision has been accepted by CJME!
- Jul 2025 One research paper in FJSP has been accepted by IJPR!
- Jul 2025 One research paper in Traffic Forecasting has been accepted by TJS!
- Oct 2024 I started my studies at KTH as a visiting Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Xi Wang and Prof. Lihui Wang!
- Jul 2024 Our poster won the Best Poster Award at the 8th Academic Conference on Digital Twins and Smart Manufacturing Services!
- Jun 2024 Research Paper Edge Computing Empowered Digital Twin has been accepted by IEEE CASE 2024!
- May 2024 A paper about fault diagnosis has been accepted by IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing!
- Nov 2023 Our poster won the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Academic Conference on Human-Centeric Smart Manufacturing!
- Sep 2021 I started a PhD on Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Yixiong Feng, at Zhejiang University!
Research
2025
Digital Twin-driven Inversion of Assembly Precision for Industrial Equipment: Challenges, Progress and Perspectives
Dinghao Cheng,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Jiangxin Yang,
Ruirui Zhong,
Tianyue Wang,
Jianrong Tan
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-24, 2025
Solving flexible job-shop problem considering skilled workers via multi-domain graph attention network
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Ansi Zhang,
Chuanjiang Li,
Kebing Jin,
Zhiwu Li,
Jianrong Tan
International Journal of Production Research, pp. 1-22, 2025
St-Graphormer: spatio-temporal graph transformer for end-to-end traffic forecasting
Zhanchi Wang,
Yi Hu,
Ruirui Zhong*,
Bingtao Hu,
Dinghao Cheng,
Yixiong Feng,
Jianrong Tan
The Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 1-25, 2025
Toward secure industrial internet of behaviours: a federated learning-based lightweight human behaviour recognition method with selective state space models
Bingtao Hu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Jiangxin Yang,
Puyan Li,
Meihao Chen,
Jianrong Tan
International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), pp. 1-17, 2025
[Paper]
Hybrid Programming-based Scheduling Approach for Many Heterogeneous Computing Tasks with Asynchronous Generation in IIoT
Bingtao Hu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Yong Wang,
Tianyue Wang,
Yixiong Feng,
MengChu Zhou,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2025
[Paper]
Magnetointeractive Cr2Te3-Coated Liquid Metal Droplets for Flexible Memory Arrays and Wearable Sensors
Puyan Li,
Yixiong Feng,
Chenchen Ding,
Ruirui Zhong,
Weiyu Yan,
Junjie Song,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Bingtao Hu,
Jianrong Tan,
Jingyu Sun,
Xiuju Song
Advanced Materials, vol. 37, no. 13, pp. 2414519, 2025
[Paper]
2024
Multi-factor embedding GNN-based traffic flow prediction considering intersection similarity
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Fei Wang,
Yixiong Feng,
Zhiwu Li,
Xiuju Song,
Yong Wang,
Shanhe Lou,
Jianrong Tan
Neurocomputing, pp. 129193, 2024
[Paper]
Deep Causal Domain Generalization Network for Human Action Recognition in Internet of Behaviors
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Xiuju Song,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), pp. 1-6, 2024
[Paper]
Edge Computing Empowered Digital Twin: An End-to-End Computing Task Scheduling Approach
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Xiuju Song,
Bingtao Hu,
Yong Wang,
Puyan Li,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 3547-3552, 2024
[Paper]
Uncertainty-aware Nuclear Power Turbine Vibration Fault Diagnosis Method Integrating Machine Learning and Heuristic Algorithm
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Puyan Li,
Xuanyu Wu,
Ao Guo,
Ansi Zhang,
Chuanjiang Li
IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 2024
[Paper]
Smart scheduling of hanging workshop via digital twin and deep reinforcement learning
Jianguo Pan,
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Jianrong Tan
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (FMSJ), pp. 1-22, 2024
[Paper]
Lithium-ion battery remaining useful life prediction: a federated learning-based approach
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Shanhe Lou,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Fei Wang,
Guangshen Li,
Jianrong Tan
Energy, Ecology and Environment, pp. 1-14, 2024
[Paper]
Human-Robot handover task intention recognition framework by fusing human digital twin and deep domain adaptation
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Shanhe Lou,
Xiuju Song,
Yixiong Feng,
Jianrong Tan
Journal of Engineering Design, pp. 1-17, 2024
[Paper]
Multiscale cost-sensitive learning-based assembly quality prediction approach under imbalanced data
Tianyue Wang,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Hao Gong,
Ruirui Zhong,
Chen Yang,
Jianrong Tan
Advanced Engineering Informatics (AEI), vol. 62, pp. 102860, 2024
[Paper]
Two-stage imbalanced learning-based quality prediction method for wheel hub assembly
Tianyue Wang,
Tao Peng,
Bingtao Hu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Xiangjun Chen,
Jianrong Tan
Advanced Engineering Informatics (AEI), vol. 59, pp. 102309, 2024
[Paper]
2023
A Human Digital Twin Based Framework for Human--Robot Hand-Over Task Intention Recognition
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Yixiong Feng,
Jianrong Tan
International Conference on Mechanical Design (ICMD), pp. 283-295, 2023
[Paper]
Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Hao Zheng,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Shanhe Lou,
Jianrong Tan
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (CJME), vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 126, 2023
[Paper]
Irregular polygons nesting algorithm driven by design knowledge and application
Yixiong Feng,
Ruirui Zhong,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Cheng Huang,
Zhongkai Li,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Jianrong Tan
Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS), vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 593, 2023
[Paper]
Service
Activities
- • Session Chair at the 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM 2025)
Education Experience
- • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China (2021 – Present)
- • Visiting Ph.D. Student in Product Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2024 – Present)
- • B.Eng in Process Equipment and Control Engineering, Jiangnan University, China (2017 – 2021)
Peer Reviewer Service
Served as a journal reviewer for:
- • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- • Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- • Advanced Engineering Informatics
- • International Journal of Production Research
- • Nonlinear Dynamics
- • Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
- • The Journal of Supercomputing
- • Neural Computing and Applications
Served as a conference reviewer for:
- • IEEE CASE 2025
- • SME NAMRC 53
- • IFAC MIM 2025
- • IEEE ICNSC 2024
- • ACAIT 2023
Membership
- • IEEE Graduate Student Member
- • IEEE RAS Graduate Student Member
- • IEEE SMC Graduate Student Member