Engineer · Pianist · Community builder

Yanzi (Angela) He

Portrait of Yanzi (Angela) He

I build robot hands taught by human motion, and a sensor glove that helps seniors play music again.

I'm a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory in the Bay Area. I've lived across multiple countries, think in English and 中文, and spend most of my time in robotics labs, at the piano, and in senior-center common rooms running Ripple.

See my work Resume (PDF)
From human motion to music Click a finger or its note label to play C, D, E, F or G and light up the matching piano key. You can also focus a note label and press Enter or Space. The exoskeleton and keyboard respond together during piano playback, and the bars below show the audio spectrum. C D E F G
Ode to JoyBeethoven

Highlights

Angela helping an older adult use the Ripple sensor glove to make music

Founder · Engineering & music

Ripple

Sensor glove turning finger movement into music for hand rehabilitation; 220+ elderly users across 12+ centers in the US, China, and Canada.
Dual-arm robot teleoperation at SomaStacks

Internship

SomaStacks Internship

End-to-end system identification for WujiArm and Tianji robotics; real-time data transformed into mathematical and physics models for refined control.
Angela at the VEX Robotics World Championship entrance

Robotics · Competition

VEX & FTC Robotics

Four seasons in competitive robotics; 2025 VEX Worlds Innovate Award.
Angela using a pipette at Stanford's Lu Lab

Research · Stanford Lu Lab

Stanford Lu Lab

Independent research on sleep deprivation in Drosophila; poster at SfN 2026.

Community · Podcast

The Innovator's Path

Conversations about STEM and entrepreneurship for young people.

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Away from the workbench, onto the stage

Music

Classical piano, competition stages, and school musicals.

From Carnegie Hall to the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the productions I share with my school.

  • Piano competition participants holding certificates beside a grand piano
    Artcial competition awards
  • Angela performing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for a piano competition
    Piano competition performance at SFCM
  • Angela wearing a medal and a green dress in front of the Artcial and SFCM backdrop
    Artcial competition medal
  • Angela beside a Steinway grand piano at the Sylvia M. Ghiglieri Piano Competition
    Sylvia M. Ghiglieri Piano Competition
  • Angela onstage beside a grand piano at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco
    Performing at Herbst Theatre · San Francisco
  • Angela playing a grand piano beside sunlit windows
    At the keys
  • Angela seated at a theater control desk with a laptop and musical score
    In the control booth
  • Angela beside the large plant puppet on the Little Shop of Horrors set
    Little Shop of Horrors
  • View of the theater control booth above the audience
    Behind the scenes
  • Angela giving a peace sign beside a keyboard and musical score during rehearsal
    At the keyboard

Piano performances

Sonata No. 11, K. 331 (III) · Intermezzo, Op. 4 No. 6 Mozart & Schumann Watch on YouTube ↗
Deux Poèmes, Op. 32, Nos. 1 & 2 Scriabin Watch on YouTube ↗

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