Sharon Xue Yang

2026 Distinguished Alumni Award

For pioneering leadership in artificial intelligence, social intelligence, and robotics, and for translating intelligent technologies into impactful real-world applications across Intel platforms and commercial robotic systems.

Dr. Sharon (Xue) Yang is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of IntBot, a San Jose, California–based robotics startup pioneering the concept of a Social Intelligence Platform that enables robots to perceive human behavior, understand social context, and continuously improve through real-world interactions across diverse embodiments and environments. Under her technical leadership, IntBot has become one of the few embodied AI startups to achieve scaled commercial deployments, with enterprise customers across hospitality, retail, airports, and other public-facing environments.

Prior to co-founding IntBot, Dr. Yang was a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, where she led global, multidisciplinary engineering teams and corporate technology ventures. She drove innovations from research through commercialization, delivering technologies deployed across Intel platforms and partner ecosystems.

Dr. Yang has more than 20 years of experience spanning artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, wireless sensing, and mobile computing, with a proven track record of building intelligent sensing and autonomous systems for large-scale, real-world deployments. She is an accomplished inventor with 161 granted patents worldwide and 37 peer-reviewed publications.

Her contributions have been recognized through numerous industry honors, including Intel's Technology Development Excellence Award and a Guinness World Record for collaborative indoor autonomous aerial robotics. She has also played an active role in advancing industry standards, serving in leadership positions within the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and collaborating extensively with both academia and industry.

Dr. Yang received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Fellow and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

Current as of 2026.