Jeremy Wang

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Wang is a Canadian aerospace engineer and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in uncrewed and autonomous systems. Jeremy currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of Ribbit, which he co-founded in 2020. Ribbit builds and operates dual-use self-flying airplanes to improve access to transportation, especially in rural, remote, and coastal regions. Ribbit is a contractor of record to multiple public safety, defence, research, and transportation agencies, and has additionally partnered with several wholesalers, Indigenous communities, and humanitarian groups. In 2023, Ribbit performed Canada’s first automated gate-to-gate flight. Prior to Ribbit, Jeremy held progressive technical and leadership roles in diverse settings such as aircraft collision avoidance research at York University, liquid rocket engine development at DLR, on-orbit servicing research at the Space Generation Advisory Council, and drone, hybrid rocket, and CubeSat development at UTAT. Jeremy most recently served as Chief Technology Officer at The Sky Guys, where he founded a new division developing dual-use NATO Class I drones and airborne payloads, and helped scale operations across North America. Jeremy is also active in the broader aerospace and defence community, including service as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and Royal Military College of Canada. Jeremy holds a BASc in Engineering Science (Toronto) and a PhD in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (Waterloo).