Welcome!
- zhuohao [at] uw.edu
- @ZhuohaoZhang
My name is Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (Chinese: 张倬豪). I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, focusing on HCI and accessibility research. I am fortunate to work with Prof. Jacob Wobbrock at the ACE Lab. I obtained my Master of Science degree in CS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where I worked with Prof. Yang Wang at the SALT Lab, and my Bachelor’s degree in CS from Zhejiang University, China. I also worked closely with Prof. Anhong Guo at the University of Michigan and Prof. Shiri Azenkot at Cornell Tech. During summers, I also interned at Apple, Microsoft Research, Meta Reality Labs, and Adobe Research. My research has been recognized and supported by the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.
I am interested in addressing real-world accessibility problems by designing assistive technologies leveraging multimodal interaction techniques and human-AI collaboration.
Selected Projects
Making digital ‘artboards’ accessible for blind users to both interpret and author by using multi-modal interaction techniques.
Making collaborative document editing accessible for screen reader users by centralizing scattered information, sonifying visual information, and simplifying complex operations.
Designed an ‘Assistive Transfer System’ (ATS) for blind people to achieve different tasks like solving complex visual CAPTCHAs and redact private information in pictures. It sources accurate, remote, and just-in-time assistance from their trusted allies.
Selected Publications
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ASSETS, 2024. A11yBoard: Making Digital Artboards Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users
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CHI, 2023. ImageAlly: A Human-AI Hybrid Approach to Support Blind People in Detecting and Redacting Private Image Content
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SOUPS, 2023. CollabAlly: Accessible Collaboration Awareness in Document Editing
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CHI, 2022.
Best Paper Honorable Mentions