Maria Yang

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT

Maria Yang is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT and is founder and director of the Ideation Lab (ideation.mit.edu). Her research centers on the preliminary phases of the design process. She is an ASME Fellow and has received the NSF CAREER award and the ASEE Merryfield Design Award. She earned her SB from MIT and her MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Yang previously served as director of design at Reactivity, a Silicon Valley startup now a part of Cisco Systems.