Michael Wang @ Chinese University of Hong Kong

Michael Yu Wang is a Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after ten years with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland. He has numerous professional honors–National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993; Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from Society of Automotive Engineers, 1994; LaRoux K. Gillespie Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1995; Boeing–A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellow, Boeing, 1998; Chang Jiang (Cheung Kong) Scholars Award from the Ministry of Education of China and Li Ka Shing Foundation (Hong Kong). He received the Kayamori Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 2001, the Best Conference Paper Award of International CAD Conference & Exhibition in 2007, the Compliant Mechanisms Award of ASME 31st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in 2007, and Research Excellence Award from Faculty of Engineering of CUHK in 2008. He is a Senior Editor of IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, and served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation and ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. He was the Conference Chair of ASME 5th Design for Manufacturing Conference in 2000 and the Workshops Chair of ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference in 2006. He was the Program Chair (2005) and the Conference Chair (2006) of IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering. He is the Program Chair of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics in 2008. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2006-2008). His research interests include computational design and optimization of solids, precision engineering, and electronic and photonic manufacturing, with over 200 technical publications in these areas. He is a Fellow of ASME, HKIE, and IEEE.