Nan-Wei Gong
Nan-Wei Gong | |
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 Nan-Wei Gong speaking at the CES2025 "Health AI Startups: Innovating the Future of Healthcare" session | |
| Born | Nan-Wei Gong |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Engineering career | |
| Employer(s) | CEO of FIGUR8 |
| Awards | Robert P. Goldberg grand prize at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition |
| Website | https://www.figur8tech.com |
Nan-Wei Gong is an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on wearable technology.[1] She is the founder and CEO of FIGUR8, a company focused on better technologies and hardware platforms to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal and orthopedic injuries.[2]
Education
[edit]Gong earned her master's degree in 2009[3] and her PhD degree in 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts [4] in the Responsive Environments Group in the MIT Media Lab advised by Joseph Paradiso.[5] In 2013 Gong was part of a team that won the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 grand prize at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The team created "new sensor-level software that recognizes three-dimensional gestures on small, battery-powered, mobile devices."[6] Gong worked in MIT's Media Lab as a research assistant for seven years.[3]
Career
[edit]Gong founded Circular2, a technology consulting company in 2014.[4] Gong is a co-inventor of a device for "sensing floor for locating people and devices. A patent was issued to Microsoft for this invention in 2015.[7] Gong co-founded FIGUR8, a company that develops wearable technology that can assess the musculoskeletal system in minutes. This technology allows for better accessibility and visibility of soft-tissue recovery and treatment planning compared to MRI's and X-Ray scans.[5][3]
References
[edit]- ^ D'Ambrosio, Daniel. "MIT Engineer Develops New Way To Improve Your Body Movement". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "About FIGUR8". FIGURE8. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
- ^ a b c "MIT: Bringing precision to musculoskeletal health. - Document - Gale Power Search". go.gale.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ a b Wogrammer (2018-07-20). "Wearing the Pants: Hardware Engineer Nan-Wei Gong Defies Gender Stereotypes to Create 3D Tech". AnitaB.org x Wogrammer. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
- ^ a b "FIGUR8 Generates $12 Million in Series A Financing. - Document - Gale Power Search". go.gale.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "Gesture Is the New Touch: MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Awards $100,000 Grand Prize to 3dim, Creator of the First 3-D Gesture Sensor for Mobile Devices - Document - Gale Power Search". go.gale.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "Microsoft Assigned Patent for Sensing Floor for Locating People and Devices - Document - Gale Power Search". go.gale.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.