CEO
MagIC Lifescience
Mountain View, CA, United States
Chengyang (Bryce) Yao is the CEO and CTO of MagIC Lifescience and the inventor of the MagiC GMR Biosensor, an innovative device that uses GMR biosensors for rapid point-of-care molecular testing.
Yao received his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Stanford University in 2017 and 2020, respectively. The son of two doctors, he observed that medicine was not benefitting from the rapid progression technology was enabling in other sectors. So, he set out to change that. Working alongside his Ph.D. advisor Dr. Shan X. Wang, as well as his fellow Ph.D. classmates Dr. Elaine Ng and Dr. Jared Nesvet, Yao become one of the world’s leading researchers on GMR biosensors.
In 2017, Yao, Wang and Ng won the XPRIZE’s Bold Epic Innovator Award for their work. Three years later, in 2020 Yao decided it was time to take their research to the next level. With Dr. Wang, Dr. Ng, Avril Jiao and Tianhao Zhu, he formed Mountain View, CA-based MagIC Lifescience. Yao is also a formal member of the Forbes Tech Councils and a senior IEEE member.
Disclosure(s): MagIC Lifescience: Board Member (Ongoing), I am an employee of MagIC Lifescience (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing), Stocks/Bonds (Ongoing)
1040 - 20 min POC LOC STI & AMR using PCR Amplification & GMR Biosensor Detection
Friday, October 13, 2023
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM US ET