Hello. I’m Lei (Rayne) Zhang.
I am a second 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, and Authoring & Programming Tools. Recently, I am doing research in immersive authoring in Virtual Reality to enable novices to easily build the VR world while immersed in VR. I am generally interested in building interactive VR & AR systems in order to enhance people’s creativity, productivity, communication, etc.
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 in the Computer Science Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In my leisure time, I am addicted to making music. Check out some of my songs here.