Rachel Yang

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Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Rachel Yang, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Office

Milas Hall 264

education

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT
  • MEng, Electrical Engineering, MIT
  • SB, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Theater Arts, MIT

research

  • Power Electronics; Magnetics Design and Modeling

Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Olin.

For research, Rachel works on power electronics, a critical technology that provides power to anything requiring electricity, from smartphones to electric vehicles. She works to make power electronics more energy efficient and energy dense by improving their most limiting parts: the magnetic components. By developing better magnetic components, Rachel hopes to help advance technology for a more sustainable society, such as through reducing the energy consumption of power-hungry data centers or accelerating the development of electrified aircraft.

Besides research, Rachel is also a science writer. Her work has appeared in TED-Ed and MIT News.

Rachel has a PhD in electrical engineering, a master's degree in electrical engineering, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and theater arts, all from MIT.