Yang WANG 汪揚



Telephone Number (852) 2358 5956


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First Name (and Middle Name If Any)
Yang
WANG
汪揚




Highest Degree Acquired (e.g. PhD in Engineering Science)
PhD in Mathematics, Harvard University




Related Web Titles
Vice-President for Institutional Advancement
Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics
Chair Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
Director of HKUST The Big Data for Bio Intelligence Laboratory
Associate Director of HKUST Big Data Institute




Contact Information Telephone Number (852) 2358 5956


Email Email
yangwang@ust.hk



Office Room 6358

Links Personal Web



Research Interests Research Interests
Data analysis using machine learning
Fractal geometry
Signal processing
Wavelets and analysis
Wavelets and frames




Biography Biography
Prof. Yang Wang took office as Vice-President for Institutional Advancement of HKUST on October 1, 2020. He is also a Chair Professor of Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics and Department of Mathematics. He joined the HKUST as the Head of the Department of Mathematics in 2014 and he became the Dean of School of Science in 2016.
Prof. Wang is an internationally respected scholar with wide ranging research interests, having published over 100 research journal papers in both pure and interdisciplinary mathematics, many of which in top journals. During his tenure as Dean of Science and Head of Mathematics, Prof. Wang founded the HKUST Big Data Institute and launched the popular Big Data Technology MSc program.
Prof. Wang received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and obtained his PhD degree in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1990. He started his academic career with the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and then moved on to be the Department Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University in 2007. He was also a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the US between 2006 and 2007.



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Research Interests Research Interests
Data analysis using machine learning
Fractal geometry
Signal processing
Wavelets and analysis
Wavelets and frames




Biography Biography
Prof. Yang Wang took office as Vice-President for Institutional Advancement of HKUST on October 1, 2020. He is also a Chair Professor of Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics and Department of Mathematics. He joined the HKUST as the Head of the Department of Mathematics in 2014 and he became the Dean of School of Science in 2016.
Prof. Wang is an internationally respected scholar with wide ranging research interests, having published over 100 research journal papers in both pure and interdisciplinary mathematics, many of which in top journals. During his tenure as Dean of Science and Head of Mathematics, Prof. Wang founded the HKUST Big Data Institute and launched the popular Big Data Technology MSc program.
Prof. Wang received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and obtained his PhD degree in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1990. He started his academic career with the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and then moved on to be the Department Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University in 2007. He was also a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the US between 2006 and 2007.



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