Yujie Wang (王宇杰)
Product Leader, HCI Researcher, Design Engineer, Entrepreneur
MIT SA+P, Media Lab, Schwarzman College of Computing
Interests
Shaping Human Relationships with Machines and the Environment
Working in the hybrid fields of precision health, wearables/AIoT, sustainability, digital phenotyping, and behavior change — taking innovation from ideas to commercialization and building products that cultivate empathy, trust, and care.
Email: yujiew@mit.edu
Website: https://sites.mit.edu/yujiew
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yujie-wang-mit
Phone: 617.201.4414
Bio
A Product Leader, HCI Researcher, and Serial Entrepreneur working in the hybrid fields of precision health, wearables/AIoT, sustainability, digital phenotyping, and behavior change — taking innovation from ideas to commercialization and building products that cultivate empathy, trust, and care.
I shape human relationships with machines and the environment across intelligent systems, mixed realities, sensory experiences, and radical products & services. My unique strength lies in building transformative products and world-class teams. From the end-to-end process of bringing advanced research, user insights, and original concepts to products/markets to synergizing user values, technical capacities, and business outcomes while driving radical innovations, I have rich experience building and leading cross-functional teams to deliver extraordinary outcomes. I am particularly interested in addressing problems involving value judgment that go beyond computational optimization.
I have advanced research experience at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School and rich professional experience across healthcare, smart home, digital farming, supply chain, mixed reality, and autonomous driving industries ranging across various product engineering functions at Philips Healthcare, IKEA Home Smart, Maersk, and FaunaPhotonics.
I deliver transformative ways for how people interact with media such as brain-computer interfaces, wearable devices, data analytics platform, IoT sensor networks, self-driving vehicles, and responsive environments. My work enhances personal, social, and ecological well-being from the body, and city scale to the planetary scale.
The interdisciplinary projects I work on are across scales and industries, ranging from AR remote collaboration/telepresence tools for Image-Guided Therapy, EEG-based brain-sensing platforms for cognitive support, data analytics and exception management platforms for global supply chain management and biodiversity monitoring, vehicular communication systems in self-driving cars, wearable-enabled music therapy platform, smart air masks leveraging citizen science and environmental sensing, vaccine syringe informant, assistive haptic-voice interface for visually impaired people, soft architectural robotics, airport wayfinding system, to the adaptive/responsive built environment.
Featured
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, 2024 ACCELERATE 1st Place Grand Prize Winner + 2023 Launch Finalist (Top 8)
Vocadian won the Grand Prize as 1st Place Winner in the MIT 100K Competition ACCELERATE. Vocadian was selected in the extremely competitive MIT 100K Launch Competition as a finalist to pitch on stage on May 15th.
2023 MIT CSAIL + Imagination in Action: AI Frontier & Implications Symposium
In honor of the 60-year anniversary of MIT CSAIL, Vocadian was invited to pitch at CSAIL + Imagination in Action: AI Frontier & Implications Symposium startup program on Jun. 27th, 2023.
Panel Speaker at 2022 MIT Climate Plug-In Conference & MIT News feature on MIT’s climate plan
Panel speaker at MIT Climate Conference “Educate Future Generations of Leaders, Problem Solvers, and Citizens”, MIT Climate Nucleus (May 9, 2022)
Conference recording:
https://climate.mit.edu/plugin
MIT News feature – MIT Climate “Plug-In” highlights first year of progress on MIT’s climate plan, https://news.mit.edu/2022/climate-plug-progress-mit-plan-0512
“The Fact and Fiction of Brain-Computer Interfaces” Panelist, 2022 SXSW Conference
Panel with Afshin Mehin, Dr. Sergey Stavisky, and Nastasha Tan
Panel about the opportunities and risks associated with Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and dispel myths about what BCIs are actually capable of in the medium term and we help inspire and inform what life could look like in a world where Brain-Computer Interfaces are more commonplace.
AttentivU+XR: Measuring Engagement, Visual, Auditory Attention, Imagery and Intent using Brain Activity – MIT Media Lab Research
Develop AttentiveU, an EEG-based brain-sensing wearable sets that measure real-time cognitive processes including cognitive load, fatigue, engagement, and focus in the Fluid Interfaces Group with Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna. Papers published in 2021 IEEE lnternational Conference on Wearable and implantable Body Sensor Networks (IEEE BSN 2021).
Check this presentation for Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) in February 2020 as well as papers at IEEE BSN 2021.
Vocadian becames the winning team at MIT Sloan B2B Marketing class
Vocadian made it to the final stage as one of the winning teams at MIT Sloan School of Management B2B Marketing class, led by Professor Sharmila Chatterjee, an esteemed marketing expert and professor. My wonderful teammates: David Yeo, Damola Pedro, and Haben Abraha
Sharmila emphasized throughout the class that “the essence of Value-Based Selling is to deliver superior value to targeted market segments and customer firms and to get an equitable return on the value delivered.”
2022 MIT SERC Scholar at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Femtech: The Ethics of Digital Reproductive Technologies
I was selected as the inaugural cohort of SERC Scholars at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing cross-cutting initiative to advance on Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing. The cohort spans the Institute across all five schools and the College of Computing.
In 2022 Spring, I partnered with a cross-disciplinary team of senior researchers to pilot new resources under development to inform ethical approaches to technology creation, development, and implementation.
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Newsletter Feature
4.s23 Biodiversity and Cities: a Perspective for Colombian Cities
The Environmental Solutions Initiative, in collaboration with the Vice-Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, conducted a week-long fieldwork in Bogotá and Quibdó for the class “Biodiversity and Cities: a Perspective for Colombian Cities” co-instructed by Professor John Fernandez, Research Program Director Marcela Angel, Post-Doctoral Fellow Norhan Bayomi, and Doctorate Instructor Alessandra Fabbri.
2022 MIT-Google Product Hack Finalist: Team Olika, (5 out of 40+), hosted by Google and MIT Sloan School of Management
in the 2022 MIT-Google Product Hack, my team Olika, including Amy Kee Young Ho, Jiajie Li, Siqi Wu, Rocky Xie, and me, made it to the top 5 finalists and were awarded the Honorable Mention.
Olika is a diversity-oriented news platform that connects users to accurate, diverse, and high-quality perspectives to encourage multifaceted engagement with news media. Check out the Olika app demo here: https://lnkd.in/eZ3ubp7b
MIT DesignX 2022 Cohort, AiRCAD: Reality-Aided Design using Hand Tracking for 3D Modeling
We make 3D design easy and accessible for all! (MIT DesignX 2022 Cohort Venture)
2022 DesignX Spring Pitch
Creating in 3D is a pain. People don’t want to waste time learning 3D software to design. It requires expensive hardware and it’s time-consuming to learn.
AiRCAD is an XR-based mobile platform that makes 3D design easy and accessible for 3D content creators by uniquely leveraging smartphone and finger tracking technologies
2022 MIT AI for Impact Demo Day
2022 Fall AI for Impact Venture Studio
Building voice AI for predictive fatigue risk management to empower safer, healthier, and more productive workforce in critical industries. We target organizations with high-safety risk operations in industries such as transportation & logistics, mining, construction, aviation, and healthcare
2022 & 2020 MIT PKG Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge finalists: reRoot & Muser
We are living in an increasingly data-driven society, data are not facts but cultural artifacts. There are lots of data sources available, but it’s hard to connect them and see them in context, especially for disadvantaged user communities.
reRoot provides community-oriented data-driven migration decision support for disadvantaged communities.
Muser provides accessible music therapy helping children mentally recover from COVID-19 outbreak.
2019-2021 MIT Table Tennis A Team
2020 NCTTA New England Divisionals
2022 MIT Table Tennis A Team
2022 NCTTA Northeast Regionals