Position Title
Adjunct Professor
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
AI-native wireless systems, intelligent autonomous networks, physical AI.
Professor Yang received her bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University. She holds more than 200 granted patents and has published extensively.
She brings extensive industry experience from NVIDIA, Verizon, and AirTouch, where she led technology strategy and roadmaps, guided wireless network evolution from 2G towards 6G, and advanced digital twin platforms. Earlier in her career, she taught mobile communications at Portland State University and helped build NovAtel’s first digital cellular phone.
Her research focuses on AI-native wireless systems, intelligent autonomous networks, and physical AI, with applications in immersive extended reality (XR), mission-critical IoT systems, and cyber-physical and industrial systems. Her interests include integrated sensing, communication, and computing; digital twins; foundation and world models; semantic communications; graph neural networks; multi-agent systems; and edge intelligence.