Welcome to my personal website! I am a PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Media Lab. I study neurotechnology under the supervision of Dr. Ed Boyden and Dr. Joseph Jacobson. By developing tools for mapping the biomolecules in the brain, I hope we can have a deeper understanding our mind. Prior to graduate school, I was a visiting student in Dr. Kay Tye’s lab studying the neural mechanism of social dominance.

My training in neuroscience shows me the power of eliciting emotion and thoughts with well-designed visual and audio stimuli (especially on mice hahahah). I have been an film director since 2015, such as Undefined Youth, Memory Cut Pro, My Poetic AlphaFriend, Decode MIT, Robotic Dog Finding me a Girlfriend. Watching my films is the best way to learn my view of the world and personality :-D

At MIT, I founded the MIT Film Makers Assocation in the hope to get my fellow MIT friends interested in expressing themselves and resonating with other souls across space and time. I organized the first MIT AI for filmmaking hackathon and the second iteration. Hundreds of people participated in our hackathon, and we received sponsorship from top-tier startups. I was honored to co-organized the Generative AI for visual arts workshop at CVPR 2024.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in learning more, email me at ruihanzhang2015@gmail.com or message me on Instagram(@ruihanzhang2015), or via LinkedIn