Yuan-Yi Fan studied computer music, media arts and multimedia engineering in the Media Arts and Technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 2015. His research investigates collective expression by creating systems that augment audience participation and multimodal interactivity. He currently leads audio research and engineering at a startup in Los Angeles. Before attending UCSB, he built MEMS ultrasound transducer arrays at the Ultrasound Imaging Laboratory in Taiwan.