My Journey – Zane Zook

I am naturally curious,

Zane Zook

I aspire to become a modern renaissance man, versed in academia, culture, and physical skill..

My Education

My dream is to become an astronaut. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to go into space.

I went through stages, wanting to be a space architect, a space doctor and the like but today I find myself fascinated by the prospect of designing robotics to better suit, complement and aid astronauts conducting missions in space.

8/2018 - present RICE UNIVERSITY95%

8/2013 - 6/2018 STANFORD UNIVERSITY100%

My Works

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

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Influence Of Focus On Haptic Perception
Influence Of Focus On Haptic Perception
Prior research has shown that the direction of a user’s focus affects the perception of tactile cues. Additionally, user agency over touch stimulation has been shown to affect tactile perception. With the development of more complicated haptic and multi-sensory devices, simple tactile cues are rarely used in isolation and the effect of focus direction and […]

Experience

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself
transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if
he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed.

8/2018 - present

Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Lab

RESEARCH FELLOW

Building and leading experiments to investigate the psychophysics and mechanical properties of wearable multi-sensory haptic devices

5/2017 - 6/2018

Stanford Collaborative Haptics and Robotics In Medicine Lab

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Designed, executed and led experiments on skin deformation devices

8/2016 - 6/2018

Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program

KYOTO STUDENT AMBASSADOR

Drove student interest to record numbers by re-imagining the marketing campaign and pioneering measures to include disadvantaged students