Jean Wang

Dr. Jean Wang is currently enjoying adventures, many with her family. She was at Amazon from 2014-2024, having founded of the Smart Eyewear initiative and served as GM/Director of Smart Eyewear. She led the Amazon Echo Frames program, which is the first smart glasses with Alexa and built for all day wear, across three generations, and developed additional ideas approved at the CEO level. From 2010-2014, Jean served as a founding member, optics engineer, Hardware Lead and Chief of Staff for Google Glass as well as for a surgical robot program. In addition, she has 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.