Amber Yang

Amber Yang is an American student at Stanford University. In the summer of 2016, before her senior year in high school, she attended the Summer Science Program in Astrophysics and calculated the orbit of a near-earth asteroid. Then, as a high school senior, she won the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, the second-highest award at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair against a field of over 1,700 competitors for her work on creating an artificial intelligence based computer system capable of tracking and predicting the orbits of space debris.
In March 2017, Amber was named as a finalist for the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the oldest and most prestigious high school science competition. Yang has also been featured as an invited speaker for Science Friday and Teen Vogue. Amber also has the distinction of being able to type 130 WPM.
Forbes 30 Under 30
In 2017, Amber was featured on Forbes Magazine's "30 Under 30" list for science. The magazine attributes her spot on the list to her accomplishments in tracking space junk with "98% accuracy - which is far more accurate than the statistical models developed by NASA" as well as to her international and national science fair titles.

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