Emily Wang is an entrepreneur, software engineer, scientist, and caregiver committed to addressing the elder caregiving and dementia crisis. She is the founder and CEO of Beaver Health, a digital health startup backed by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Innovation Labs. Beaver Health was awarded the Grand Prize in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge. Emily also serves as the Principal Investigator on multiple NIH grants, leading efforts to develop assistive AI technologies that deliver engaging and culturally responsive cognitive stimulation activities and personalized support tools for family caregivers. At Beaver Health, Emily has brought together a multi-disciplinary team of AI, engineering, medical, and caregiving experts, united by a mission to ensure all older adults and their family members can access expert support. Her prior work includes conducting natural language processing and AI research at Harvard, scaling multimodal AI models at Facebook, and developing bright and photostable fluorescent proteins at Stanford Bioengineering, which are used by scientists internationally. She is an alumna of Harvard College, where she studied computer science and biology. Emily’s work has been recognized through honors such as Johnson & Johnson’s Champion of Science, the Davidson Fellowship, the Synopsys N+1 Breakthrough Prize, Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams, the International BioGENEius Challenge, and induction into the National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors.