Jiawei Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2019 and conducted postdoctoral research at Boston Children's Hospital and MIT from 2019-2023. The Yang lab is a highly interdisciplinary research group, with expertise in mechanics, materials, and biotechnology. The current research focuses on the design, synthesis, and engineering of soft materials and their integrated systems across multiple length scales for on-demand mechanical, physical, and biological functionalities. The research combines theoretical modeling and experiments to gain fundamental knowledge of soft material systems and their intricate interactions and develop soft material technologies for healthcare and medical sustainability.