Yulun Wang, PhD, is the chairman and CEO of InTouch Health, based in Goleta, California. In 2002, Yulun founded InTouch Technologies (d.b.a. InTouch Health), a company that pioneers remote-presence robot systems which enable healthcare professionals to provide more effective and efficient healthcare by allowing them to "be in two places at once."
In 2008, InTouch Health received Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 Award of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America, ranking number 39. Also in 2008, InTouch Health received Inc Magazine's Inc 500 award ranking 289 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in America and was also ranked number 18 in the Top 100 Health Companies on the list.
In 1989, Yulun founded Computer Motion, the company that pioneered surgical robotics. He was the principal architect and inventor of the voice-controlled robotic arm called AESOP, the first FDA-cleared surgical robot; as well as the ZEUS robotic surgical system, which performed the world's first transatlantic surgery. Computer Motion went public in 1997 and merged with Intuitive Surgical in 2003 for one-third of the resulting company.
In September 2000, the National Academy of Engineers selected Yulun as one of the nation's top young engineers to participate in the Frontiers of Engineering program. Yulun was further honored in June 2005 when Ernst & Young named him Finalist for its Entrepreneur of the Year award, and again in 2007, when the University of California-Santa Barbara awarded him with the Venky Narayanamurti Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. He has more than 40 publications and over 70 patents in the areas of robotics and computers.
Yulun is a member of UCSB's Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering advisory board, the Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian board of directors, and the American Telemedicine (ATA) board of directors. He is frequently invited to speak at noteworthy meetings and events, has appeared on the Today show, on CNN, and in various other televised interviews.
Yulun has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering specializing in Robotics from the University of California-Santa Barbara.
