Emily Wang is a mission-driven entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist whose personal experiences caring for her older loved ones inspired her to build Beaver Health.

As founder and CEO of Beaver Health, Emily leads a multi-disciplinary team of AI, engineering, caregiving, and medicine to develop assistive tools that support the health and well-being of older adults and their family caregivers.

Backed by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Innovation Labs, Beaver Health was awarded the Grand Prize at the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge. At Beaver, Emily also serves as Principal Investigator of multiple NIH grants to build evidence-based cognitive stimulation activities and caregiver support tools for people with memory concerns or dementia and their families.

Her previous experiences include:

• developing bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins mClover3 & mRuby3 at Stanford Bioengineering, now used in research labs internationally to visualize biological signals for cancer and neuroscience research
• conducting natural language processing (biomedical question-answering and summarization), computer vision for connectomics, AI agents (flock simulations) research at Harvard
• leading impactful initiatives at Facebook AI to scale multimodal and conversational AI models to billions of users worldwide, integrating legal, ethical, privacy, engineering, and research considerations to support user experience
• understanding the foraging skills of giant pandas for conservation efforts

She is an alumna of Harvard College, where she studied computer science and biology, and enjoyed walking along the Charles River observing the Canadian geese and goslings. Some of her favorite courses include:

• GHHP60: Negotiation & Conflict Management
• AI13: Cultural Agents
• CS280R: Advanced Topics in AI (Collaborative AI Systems)
• SCRB197: Frontiers of Therapeutics, and CS287: Deep Learning for NLP

During her time at Harvard, outside of research and psets, Emily enjoyed being a part of the Franklin Fellowship (a self-improvement/mutual growth community) and Harvard SummerCamp Board (organizing fun social events for Harvard tech interns + cos).

Her work has been recognized through honors such as Johnson & Johnson’s Champion of Science, Davidson Fellowship, Synopsys N+1 Breakthrough Prize, winner of the International BioGENEius Challenge, and induction into the National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors.

She also serves as scientific reviewer specializing in AI and digital health for the National Institutes of Health.

Outside of Beaver, Emily enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, observing ocean waves, seals, and plants, working on self-improvement, enjoying low-carb desserts, iPhone + DSLR photography, dance, playing piano, and singing 1920s karaoke with her grandmother.