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Hello. I’m Lei Zhang.

I am a Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, School of Information, luckily advised by Professor Steve Oney and Professor Anhong Guo. My research interests lie primarily in the area of Human-Computer Interaction,  Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Authoring & Programming Tools. More specifically, I do research in building systems and interaction techniques that enable novices, namely people with little to no technical background, to easily create content in VR & AR. Previously, I have interned at Snap Research, working with Rajan Vaish and Fannie Liu. 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. During undergrad, I also worked as a research intern at the Computer Science Department in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In my leisure time, I like making music (song writing, music production, recording & mixing) and exploring exhibitions. Check out some of my music here.