Alumni Kaleidoscope: Charlie Wang - PhD(MECH), Mphil(MECH)
Charlie currently holds a Chair in Smart Manufacturing with the University of Manchester. He worked as a tenured Professor and Chair of Advanced Manufacturing (2016-2018) at Delft University of Technology, and was with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as an Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (2003-2015 & 2018-2020). His research interests include geometric computing, digital manufacturing, computational design, and robotics. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE).
Charlie's record of awards is dazzling and includes the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award (2016), the ISSMO/Springer Prize (2019), the Best Paper Award (2nd Place) of Solid and Physical Modeling (2019), the NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award (2013), the Best Paper Awards of ASME CIE Conferences (twice in 2008 and 2001 respectively), the Prakash Krishnaswami CAPPD Best Paper Award of ASME CIE Conference (2011), and the ASME CIE Young Engineer Award (2009).
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
