Xingchen Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai. His work connects his professional background in the video game industry with his academic research. He focuses on creating hybrid spaces where the digital and physical worlds meet, using technologies like AR and VR.
Before teaching, he worked as a senior artist on major game titles like American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns. His current projects, such as Verse: NO.1555, Memory Co-Space, explore how to move media beyond the screen to create new, shared experiences.
As an educator, he teaches game development and has helped build a strong game design community at the university through events like Game Jams. His work has been featured at TEDx Shanghai and the PuDong Library.
Selected Works
- [Talk] TEDx NYU Shanghai, Unessentials - The Design and Technology of Verse: NO.1555, November 2022. https://engage.shanghai.nyu.edu/event/8559530
- [Conference] Digital Humanities 2024, Project Presentation - Becoming Guanyin, Washington DC, 2024 Summer. https://dh2024.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DH2024-program.pdf
- [Grant]NYUSH SFSC - AI Integrated High-Resolution 3D Model Simplification, 2025 Spring
- [Grant] NYU Research Catalyst Grant, 2024
- [Talk] Pudong Library, Shanghai, The Design of Verse: NO.1555, 2023 Spring