Ya Wang
Associate Professor Of Mechanical Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolYa Wang is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and entrepreneur with nine years of faculty experience and a track record of translating sensing and nano-robotics research into real-world products and a startup (PIRvision Lens). As a principal investigator and lab director she has secured over $10M in federal funding to lead multidisciplinary teams on projects spanning thermopile/ultrasonic sensor fusion, magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles for brain therapeutics, and energy-harvesting wearables. Her work bridges academia and industry—from designing compressive-sensing thermopile detectors for indoor human positioning to creating AI-enabled refractive lenses for stationary occupancy and fall detection—while holding affiliated roles in biomedical and electrical engineering. A former visiting scholar at Stanford Medicine and a PhD-trained roboticist with perfect academic grades, she couples deep technical rigor with product-minded market analysis and prototyping. Not obvious from titles alone, she routinely moves between device-level innovations (sensors, nanoparticles) and system-level deployments (ML fusion, IoT applications), making her equally at home in a cleanroom or leading translational teams in Palo Alto.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster’s Degree, Passive Wireless High Temperature Sensor, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Passive Wireless High Temperature Sensor, 4.0/4.0 at University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezBachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Shandong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
python9
machine-learning9
pytorch9
deep-learning8
data-science8
tensorflow8
neural-network6
jax6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wangye0523/Short-term-text-classification-task
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
wangye0523/wangye0523.github.io
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
AcadHomepage: A Modern and Responsive Academic Personal Homepage
Contributions:102 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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