Yang, Ran

Physicist. Inventor. Educator.

Light, she can measure.
Time, she plants.
The rest — she teaches others to hold.

Clinical · PI & Inventor · 2024 to present

iRays

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 ↗
NIH · AI4Health Patent Pending
Philosophical · PI & Facilitator · 2026 to present

The Vessel

A cathedral of patience
for a civilization leaving home.

A rocket left Earth last night. In a Norwegian forest, 1,000 trees are growing into paper for books no one alive will ever read. One is the fastest thing we have ever built. The other is the slowest.

Seven scholars. Seven disciplines. One question none of them can answer. Selected as the inaugural cohort of the Global Research Institute Pathfinder program.

untitledtime.org ↗
GRI Pathfinder · Inaugural Cohort Deep Time

A life in numbers

20+ Grants
50+ Invited talks
100+ Projects supervised
50+ Theses advised
5k+ Students taught
1 PhD — ongoing
Also in motion
MCP · Co-Founder & Director · 2021 to present

Mentoring for Careers in Physics

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 ↗
Waveform.ai · PI & Producer · 2024 to present

Where AI Composes and the Stage Listens

An AI music installation premiered at PBK Theater. Algorithm, sound, and live performance — inseparable.

waveformai.wm.edu ↗

Earlier work & recognition

萬物並作,吾以觀復

Ten thousand things rise.
I watch them return.

Tao Te Ching · Chapter XVI

Say hello.

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