Dr. Isabel Yang is chief technology officer and senior vice president of Advanced Energy, responsible for leading the execution of the company’s global technology vision and strategy. Prior to joining AE, Dr. Yang served as the vice president of Corporate Strategy, and VP of strategy and operations for IBM Research, where she focused on driving leading-edge innovations in such areas as artificial intelligence, healthcare solutions, and high-performance computing. Prior to her strategy role, Dr. Yang spent several years in IBM’s Technology and Intellectual Property Licensing. Dr. Yang’s early years in IBM were spent in the Semiconductor Research and Development Center developing leading edge technologies for memory and logic chips.
In addition to having over 20 years of industry experience, Dr. Yang holds multiple patents, has written extensively for more than 40 technical publications and was the recent recipient of Most Influential Women in Manufacturing Award as well as well Denver Business Journal C-Suite Award. Dr. Yang completed all of her higher education at MIT, receiving a bachelor’s degree in material science, a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, specializing in solid state physics and semiconductors.