About
Built by the researchers who needed it first
The technology underlying Daynamica was developed by a team of faculty and students at the University of Minnesota. In 2017, the team was granted a U.S. patent on the underlying technology.
Chief Executive Officer
Guang Yang, Ph.D.
Guang is co-founder of Daynamica, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Peking University (China) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Carolina. Prior to joining Daynamica, he worked as Senior Project Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific for seven years, managing R&D projects from business proposal through product release, including next-generation X-ray inspection platforms and high-speed online weighing systems.
Chief Scientific Officer
Yingling Fan, Ph.D.
Yingling is co-founder of Daynamica, Inc. and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Minnesota. She led the five research projects that developed the Daynamica technology between 2011 and 2018, pioneered the transportation happiness concept, and has attracted more than $18 million in extramural research funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Science Foundation, and private foundations.
Chief Innovation Officer
Julian Wolfson, Ph.D.
Julian is a co-founder of Daynamica, Inc., and Professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. His research interests include machine learning, causal inference, and mobile health, and he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Chief Technology Officer
Chen-Fu Liao, Ph.D.
Chen-Fu is co-founder of Daynamica, Inc. His research focuses on Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies to assist people with vision impairment in finding their way, including a mobile accessible pedestrian signal (MAPS) system for crossing streets at signalized intersections.