# Hee Doo Yang

> Staff Engineer (Mechanical Design, System Integration, Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hee

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2022 – Present | South Korea

### Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jan 2019 – Present | Cambridge, MA, USA

### Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA, USA
1. Textile-based soft wearable robots for walking assistance
   ▪ Developed first soft wearable robot for assisting hip abduction integrating principles from biomechanics, ergonomics, and industrial apparel design
   ▪ Developed and implemented control algorithms to detect user intent with body-worn IMU sensors and apply biologically-inspired assistance in synergy with the wearer
2. Biomechanics of human walking with soft wearable robots
   ▪ Designed and conducted human locomotion experiments to evaluate the performance of wearable
robots and users through analysis of biomechanical and physiological data
   ▪ Conducted qualitative user experience research through surveys for improving user perception and
defining device translation potential 
3. Projects
   ▪ Hip abduction exoskeleton for patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
   ▪ Hip flexion assistance for elderly to enhance gait stability
   ▪ Ankle plantar flexion assistance for elderly and Parkinson’s Disease patients

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Blacksburg
1. Soft Robotics
   ▪ Developed a new method for soft and soft/rigid hybrid robot fabrication based on additive manufacturing principles to enable 3-dimensional structures
   ▪ Designed and modeled a controllable textile based pneumatic actuator
   ▪ Designed, fabricated, and evaluated control of novel pneumatic artificial muscle actuators, pneumatic elbow exoskeletons, pneumatic robotic manipulators, and deformable robots

### Main Instructor @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Blackburg
1. Created a pneumatic powered soft robotic gripper to demonstrate the concept of soft robotics to middle school students.

### Research Assistant Internship @ Pusan National University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pusan, South Korea
1. Designed and characterized a tube-shaped flexible thermal energy harvester based on a carbon nanotube sheet electrode.
2. Developed manufacturing process for a waste thermal energy harvester based on liquid thermoelectric.


## Education
### Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech

### Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Nanomechatronics Engineering
Pusan National University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hee-doo-yang-2a3173104

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Last updated: 2026-03-31