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Greetings! I’m Mingrui Zhang (张明瑞). I am a Member of Technical Staff at Reflection.ai in New York City (We’re hiring! Message me on Linkedin if you’re interested). I graduated from the University of Washington Information School as a Ph.D. My advisor is Prof. Jacob O. Wobbrock, who directs the ACE Lab. Before that, I gained my BEng of Computer Science & Technology from Tsinghua University, China.

My research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction and AI agents. Recent years I moved to developing Large-langugage Models (LLM), especially on their agentic capabilities which resembles a lot of how humans interact with the environment. In the past, I’ve done research for input interactions (e.g. gesture/text input, targeting) for Meta’s Rayban Display and Oculus devices. My PhD work focused on intelligent text entry methods, including improving and evaluating the technology that facilitates human communication process (e.g. smart speaker, auto correction/prediction), and making them accessible for people with different abilities.

I enjoy playing computer games in my spare time, but you know, I rarely have spare time :) You can find me at Zhihu, on Wechat official account thisisdrustz, a featured news and a short profile of me from UW iSchool.

“每个人都会经历这个阶段，看见一座山，就想知道山后面是什么。
我很想告诉他，可能翻过山后面，你会发觉没有什么特别。回头看会觉得这边更好。
但是他不会相信 —— 
以他的性格，自己不试过又怎会甘心？”


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