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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 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 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.