Mingrui Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Reflection AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMingrui Zhang is an ML and HCI researcher-turned-product engineer with 11 years of experience building novel interaction systems and applied AI across AR/MR, mobile, and recommendation products. After a PhD in HCI from University of Washington, he prototyped EMG handwriting, gaze/hand AR interactions and keyboard designs at Meta and shipped voice and phrase-level input work during internships at Apple and Google. He blends deep research rigor with hands-on product delivery, recently bootstrapping engine-level work as a Member of Technical Staff at Reflection AI. Notably, his background spans both foundational LLM-enhanced recommendation modeling and tactile interaction prototypes, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions that connect perception, language, and UX. Based in New York, he is selective about domains (not interested in finance/trading/TikTok/Huawei), reflecting a focused product and ethics-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD HCI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD HCI at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityKai Feng Middle SchoolThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Visting Students Human Computer Interaction, Visting Students Human Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (105)
natural-language-generation10
html-editor10
wysiwyg10
nlg10
quill10
compatibility10
calculation10
text-editing10
height10
rich-text-editor10
nlp9
tuple9
spelling9
rte9
contenteditable9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DrustZ/ICGVideoTrimmer_extend
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
DrustZ/DrRayTracer
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 months
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