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Julia was born in Fairfax, Virginia, to parents Yanchun and Lei Wang. Her father and mother immigrated from Beijing, China, where Yanchun was a professor taught at Tsinghua University, in 1994 with Julia's sister Lisa to Ames, Iowa, and in 1994. In 1996, the Wang family moved to Fairfax in 1996. When , and when Julia was 3 months old, the Wang family they moved to the Bay Area, California. They eventually settling settled in San Jose, California, where and Yanchun and Lei currently work as software engineers in the Silicon Valley. Julia grew up speaking both English and her parents' native language of Mandarin, and later learned French during her middle and high school years.