Mengyuan Zhang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing, under the supervision of Dr. Julian Brinkley. She received her Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2019, and her Bachelor’s degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) in 2016.

Mengyuan is interested in human-centered computing broadly and has worked on projects involving biometrics and driver comfort, performance and safety.