Physicist. Inventor. Educator.
Light, she can measure.
Time, she plants.
The rest — she teaches others to hold.
A device that reads the eye
before the hospital can.
Dual-spectrum pupillometry for prehospital neuro-triage. In the back of an ambulance — in the minutes that define survival — iRays reads what no unaided eye can see: the neurological signature of traumatic brain injury, encoded in the pupil's response to two frequencies of light simultaneously.
Patent pending. Built with the City of Hampton Fire & Rescue. Funded by NIH Mid-South REACH (pending) and the AI4Health Initiative.
iraysvision.com ↗A cathedral of patience
for a civilization leaving home.
On a launch pad in Florida, a rocket prepares to leave Earth. In a Norwegian forest, 1,000 spruce saplings planted in 2014 will not be harvested until 2114 — to become paper for books no one alive today will ever read. One is escape. One is permanence.
Dr. Yang leads an interdisciplinary Pathfinder asking: in an age of algorithmic production, what remains irreplaceably human? Her answer is rooted in Wu Wei — the stillness the machine cannot replicate. With collaborators across Physics, Art, English, Biology, Philosophy, and Libraries.
untitledtime.org ↗A life in numbers
A mentorship program pairing undergraduate women in physics with professional female mentors across industry, research, and government — NASA, Jefferson Lab, Micron, Microsoft, and more. Now in its fifth year, MCP has supported 120+ students and won all five stages of Vision 2026 Faculty Innovators. Society of 1918 and Physics Department funded. "You Belong Here" — W&M feature ↗
mcp.physics.wm.edu ↗An AI music installation premiered at PBK Theater. Algorithm, sound, and live performance — inseparable.
waveformai.wm.edu ↗Earlier work & recognition
Ten thousand things rise.
I watch them return.