Professor Yang earned her SB in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and her MS and PhD from Stanford University's Mechanical Engineering Department, Design Division. She joined the MIT faculty in 2007. Professor Yang’s industrial experience includes serving as Director of Design at Reactivity, Inc., a Silicon Valley software company now a part of Cisco Systems. She has done research into collaborative design tools at Apple Computer and Lockheed. In addition, she has explored the user interaction issues for software design, as well as ergonomics issues of force-feedback devices for Immersion Corporation.