Professor Zhang is the founding director of the Medical Frontier Ultrasound Imaging and Robotic Instrumentation (Medical FUSION) Laboratory. The research in his lab focuses on the interface of medical imaging, sensing, and robotics; and on developing robotic-assisted imaging systems and image-guided robotic interventional platforms, in which ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging are two key modalities to be investigated and integrated with robotics. He is developing safe and affordable robotic ultrasound for COVID-19 detection. He is working to conduct further research on a robotic technology his lab developed to improve the clinical screening process that assesses the viability of donated kidneys for transplantation. The goal of this research is to ultimately save lives by reducing the number of organs that are discarded during current screening processes.