Hello. I’m Lei (Rayne) Zhang.
I am a first year Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, School of Information, luckily advised by Professor Steve Oney.
My research interests lie primarily in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality, 3D User Interfaces, and Gamification Design. Recently, I am doing research in immersive authoring in Virtual Reality to enable users to easily create 3D interactive contents. I am constantly thinking about this fascinating question: how do we shape the languages (programming languages, body languages, natural languages, etc.) that people will use to communicate with the holograms in the future?
Previously, I was an undergraduate in the School of Software at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I was a research member at the Digital ART Lab of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Xubo Yang and Prof. Shuangjiu Xiao.I have also conducted research at Cascade Lab in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Prof. Wai-Tat Fu.
