Yujie Wang

A mediator between the objective and the subjective, enhancing human-human connection through shaping human-machine and human-environment relationships. (https://www.yujie-wang.com/about)

As a Product Leader, HCI Researcher, Design Engineer, and Entrepreneur, I am interested in addressing problems involving value judgment that goes beyond computational optimization. I have research experience at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School. With professional experiences in healthcare, mixed reality, digital farming, and supply chain industries as well as technology transfer from research to market, I deliver transformative ways for how people interact with media such as brain-computer interfaces, wearable devices, IoT sensor networks, self-driving vehicles, and responsive environments. My work enhances personal, social, and ecological well-being from the body scale to the planetary scale.

My interdisciplinary projects across scales and industries range from AR remote collaboration/telepresence tools for Image-Guided Therapy, EEG-based brain-sensing platform for cognitive support, data analytics and exception management platforms for global supply chain management, vehicular communication systems in self-driving cars, wearable-enabled music therapy platform, Internet of Breaths (IoB) with smart air masks, vaccine syringe informant, assistive haptic-voice interface for visually impaired people, pneumatic wearables, soft architectural robotics, airport wayfinding system, to the adaptive built environment.

I enjoy connecting human needs and socio-environmental conditions to strategic design decisions, and I firmly believe that the integration of design and technology within a logical business framework is the key to shaping sustainable practice into the future.

Constantly building my creative, technical, and leadership confidence across disciplines and industries. Minds and hands, connecting the dots!