Rui Zhu is a composer and graduate student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, pursuing dual majors in Scoring for Visual Media and Computer Music Composition in Bloomington, Indiana. Her work encompasses film scoring, electronic music, and contemporary classical composition. Zhu has studied under distinguished faculty including Professors Don Freund, Gabriel Jenks, John Gibson, and Chi Wang. Her compositions and research have been featured at IRCAM's Manifeste 2025 in Paris and Stanford University's CCRMA Summer Workshop on Audio-Centric Game Design in ChucK+ChuGL in 2025.