Nan-Wei Gong is an MIT research affiliate and engineer with a penchant for turning wearable technologies into viable tech startups. Her most recent venture, figur8, Inc., is an MIT E14 company that straddles the sports medicine and digital health sectors with the aim of taking digitized 3-D body movement technologies out of the lab and into the hands of everyday users. She holds a PhD and MS in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. During her time at the MIT Media Lab, she co-founded and was hardware engineering lead at her first startup, 3dim Tech Inc., an MIT spinoff that designed and developed gesture control and 3-D sensing software.