# Li Wang

> Solve problems worth solving for

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/liwang

## Work Experience
### Hardware Development/ Module Design @ Apple
Jan 2023 – Present

### Product Lead @ R-Zero
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Led a new bio-safety (COVID help) product design and managed schedule from initial scope to production in 6 months. This was achieved through 5x full-functional build cycles, fast prototype iterations, ID reviews, user experience design and parallel testing to pass EMI, Thermal, RF, and service requirements.

### Display Engineer - Vision Pro @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Led a core module design (ultra-compact opto-mechanical system) from lab-concept to productization to support novel user experience and platform.
Led cross-functional teams to define product specification and conduct design reviews to improve manufacturability, cost saving, and reliability.

### Mechanical Design Engineer- iPhone @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
As the display design lead, designed and ramped a new narrow border display architecture(iPhone XR) from scratch, and set the shortest production ramp time record in iPhone history(14months).  
As the team’s go-to mechanical expert on silicon structural integrity, strengthened display IC by 30% through packaging process optimization and reduced IC structural failure related field returns (DPPM) by 49%. (iPhone 8)

### Manufacturing Design Engineer- Watch @ Apple
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
My intern project saved millions of $ by improving yield on the first generation Apple Watch housing by 71%.

### Mechanical Engineer II @ KSi Conveyors Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Industrial Engineer Co-op @ John Deere
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Ignite 2020- entrepreneurship
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

### Master of Science - MS in Manufacturing Engineering
Bradley University

### Master of Science - MS in Off-road Equipment Engineering/Agricultural Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Japanese & International Business
Niigata University | 新潟大学

### Mechanical Engineering
China Agricultural University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/li--wang

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Last updated: 2026-04-07