Advisor: Ken Nakagaki
Willa Yang is a maker, tinkerer, hardware lover, and home-improvement enthusiast. Her research aims to empower people to effortlessly and non-invasively augment and enrich their everyday environments. She pursues this goal by designing hardware systems that allow users to bring actuation, interaction, and intelligence into everyday spaces. Her work stands for individual creativity and for giving people the agency to make their environments work for them, on their own terms and in their own ways.
Before joining UChicago, she received her B.S. from the University of Washington and her M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University.
