Dr. Jean Wang is a Director at Amazon, where she founded and leads the Smart Eyewear initiative. Together with her team, they built and launched the Echo Frames product line, which are smart glasses with Alexa designed for all day wear. She previously served as an optics engineer, Hardware Lead and Chief of Staff for Google Glass, co-developed intellectual property strategies at Intellectual Ventures and investigated device performance for space applications at Northrop Grumman.
Jean received her Ph.D. and M.S. at University of Washington, and B.S. at California Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. She is a recipient of the UW College of Engineering Early Career Diamond Award, Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship and NSF Ph.D. Fellowship.
