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Yawen Yang is pioneering the frontier of wearable haptics and bio-inspired electronic skins, addressing critical challenges in human-machine interaction. Her landmark 2024 paper, "A fully integrated breathable haptic textile," tackles the pervasive sweating issue in wearables—a bottleneck that degrades feedback accuracy and comfort. By engineering a textile that remains functional and comfortable even when moist, Yang’s work has already garnered 57 citations, signaling its immediate impact on VR and robotics interfaces. In parallel, her "Mormyroidea-inspired electronic skin for active non-contact three-dimensional tracking and sensing" (54 citations) breaks a fundamental limitation of soft electronics: the inability to sense in 3D without physical contact. Drawing inspiration from the weakly electric fish, Yang’s e-skin enables non-contact 3D spatial tracking, a leap forward for robotic perception and human-machine interfaces. Her contributions are not merely incremental; they redefine what wearable electronics can achieve, offering solutions to long-standing problems in comfort and sensing dimensionality. Yang’s work stands at the intersection of materials science, bioinspiration, and interactive technology, making her a rising leader in next-generation wearables.