PhD student in Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin
🧪 Expanding Digital Image/Volume Correlation (DIC/DVC) technology under extremely challenging conditions
🌍 Passionate about measurement technologies, solid experimental mechanics, Machine Learning

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• Developed an advanced, robust, and user-friendly open-source stereo-DIC method for high-accuracy 3D displacement measurement.
• Focused on complex geometry, large deformation, and complex real biological tissue challenges.

• Presents a machine learning approach to improve Digital Image Correlation (DIC) analysis efficiency.
• Automates region selection, mesh refinement, and subset splitting near complex sample edges.

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• iDICs 2025 (Alexandria, VA, USA)

  • Talk: "RAFTcorr: An Open-Source, Deep Learning Digital Image Correlation Framework for Dense Displacement Measurement"
  • Date: Nov. 4-6, 2025
  • Session: DIC/DVC Algorithms Improvement

• TECHCON 2025 (Austin, TX, USA)

  • Talk: "3D Stere-ALDIC for High-Precision Full-field Deformation Characterization in Semiconductor Materials"
  • Date: Sep. 7-10, 2025
  • Session: Smart Sensing – The Analog Data Deluge

• SEM Annual Conference 2025 (Milwaukee, WI, USA)

  • Talk: "3D Stereo-ALDIC"
  • Date: June 2-5, 2025
  • Session: Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics

• IMAC-XLIII 2025 (Orlando, FL, USA)

  • Talk: "Advancing Digital Image Correlation for Biomechanical Applications"
  • Date: June 3-6, 2024
  • Session: DIC/DVC Methods

• SEM Annual Conference 2024 (Vancouver, WA, USA)

  • Talk: "Exploring the Interplay of Alveolar Mechanics and Fluid Accumulation in Pulmonary Edema: Insights from Soft Metamaterials 3D Printing and Mechanical Testing"
  • Date: June 3-6, 2024

• Southern SEM Student Symposium 2024 (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)

  • Talk: "Exploring the Interplay of Alveolar Mechanics and Fluid Accumulation in Pulmonary Edema: Insights from Soft Metamaterial 3D Printing and Mechanical Testing"
  • Date: May 12, 2024

• Our developed 3D-ALDIC method is participating in the Stereo-DIC Challenge 2.0.

• I am currently serving as an assistant for DVC Challenge 2.0, focusing on coordination, data organization, and paper writing.

• I am also developing an ML-based DIC method.

📌 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ZixiangTong
📌 ResearchGate: ResearchGate
📌 Google Scholar: Google Scholar
📌 Our group website: Yang group
📌 Email: zachtong@utexas.edu

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