Faculty and Research

Woodward Yang is the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University.  He is currently spending his sabbatical for the 2008/09 academic year at Harvard Business School as the HBS University Fellow. 

Dr. Yang's technical research interests are focused on the design and implementation of integrated circuits and systems including microprocessors, DRAM, NAND flash and CMOS image sensors.  His technical experience includes semiconductor device physics, material science, microelectronic fabrication technology, circuit design, computer architecture, signal processing systems and algorithms.  Dr. Yang is well known for his pioneering work in the development and commercialization of CMOS image sensors.  In addition, Dr. Yang founded a DRAM design company, Silicon7, in March 2000 which designed and manufactured special purpose memory products for mobile computing and communication systems.   

Dr. Yang graduated from UC Berkeley in 1984 with a BS in EECS and graduated from MIT with a PhD in EECS immediately prior to joining the faculty at Harvard University in 1990.  Dr. Yang was a Hertz Foundation Fellow and also received the NSF and ARO Young Investigator Awards.