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Shumin Zhai's Biographical Sketch

Shumin Zhai is a research scientist interested in both foundational issues of user interfaces (e.g. laws of action and the cognitive aspect of gesture UI) and practical product and service innovations (e.g. FonePal and the ScrollPoint mouse). He originated and led the ShapeWriter project that pioneered the touchscreen gesture keyboard paradigm. He has published over 100 research papers, received about 30 patents, and contributed to multiple IBM Research Division Accomplishments. His work has been reported in over 100 articles in the news media including the New York Times and the BBC. He regularly serves on academic boards and committees and is currently the 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. Among the first to enter universities through the competitive national entrance examination in 1977 after the 10 year Cultural Revolution, Shumin started his academic and research career in China in 1984 after receiving his master's degree. 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. In 2010 he was named a Fellow of the ACM and Member of the CHI Academy.

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