Prior joining
University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering, he was an R&D engineer and materials
scientist in
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, working on
piezoelectric and electrostatic microactutors for high-speed inkjet printing.
From 1990 to 1992, he worked as an engineer in a technology company in Beijing
where he participated in the research and development of electronic materials
and piezoelectric devices. From 1992 to 1994, he was a research assistant in
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
, working on Nickel-Zinc ferrite and ferrite/polymer composites for
EMI filter application. From 1994 to 1998,
he was a graduate assistant in the Materials Research Laboratory of the
Pennsylvania State University working toward his Ph.D. degree in the areas of
piezoelectric ceramic actuators for low frequency active noise cancellation
and vibration damping, and thin film materials for microactuator and microsensor
applications.
Dr. Wang's primary research interests are in microelectromechanical systems
(MEMS) and microfabrication; smart materials; and piezoelectric/electrostrictive
ceramics, thin films and composites for electromechanical transducer, actuator
and sensor applications. He is inventor or co-inventor of 10 US patents and
patent disclosures, and has published more than 80 papers in his research area.
