Nan-Wei Gong is an MIT engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on wearable technology.[1]
Gong earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.[2] After spending a summer internship working with Joseph Paradiso[2] at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gong decided to attend the school where she earned her master's degree in 2009[3] and her PhD in the Responsive Environments Group in the MIT Media Lab in 2013.[4] 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."[5] Gong worked in MIT's Media Lab as a research assistant for seven years.
Gong founded Circular2, a technology consulting company in 2014. 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.[6] 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.