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Greetings! I’m Mingrui Zhang, a third year Ph.D. in the University of Washington Information School. My advisor is Prof. Jacob O. Wobbrock, who directs the ACE Lab.

My research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, specifically text entry, input methods, and interaction techniques, where I seek better methods to make technology natural and seamless. At the same time, I’m applying machine learning techniques to make intelligent text entry methods.

Before moving to Seattle, I was a student of Computer Science & Technology in Tsinghua University, China, where I worked as a researcher as well as in industry. Back then, Dr. Chun Yu opened the world of HCI to me.

I enjoy playing computer games in my spare time, but you know, I rarely have spare time :)

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