Jie Zhang is a graduate student in the East Asian Studies MA program. She holds interest in East Asian Buddhist art, GIS mapping and museum studies. Jie joins the University of Virginia from the National University of Singapore, where she used GIS to map the historical origins of Chinese immigrants to the Straits Settlement using data obtained from their tombstones. Jie hopes to develop skills in 3D scanning, AR, VR, spatial mapping and other digital tools through the DH program.