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Shumin Zhai is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center where his work spans from the fundamentals of user interfaces (e.g. laws of action) to practical product and service innovations (e.g. FonePal). He has published over 100 research papers, received numerous patents, and contributed to three IBM Research Division Accomplishments. His work, particularly ShapeWriter, has been broadly reported in the news media including the New York Times and the BBC. He has served on many editorial boards and is the current Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. He has been a visiting professor and lectured at various universities in the US, Europe and China. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto in 1995. In 2006, he was named one of ACM's inaugural class of Distinguished Scientists.
Prior to joining IBM in June 1996, he was a research scientist at the University of Toronto's Computer Systems Research Institute. Before moving to Canada in 1989, he taught and did research on computer control systems at XiDian University in Xian, China.