Hong Wang

Biography

Dr. Hong Wang is a "Zhiyuan" Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University. After earning his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994, he worked in the United States as a research scientist for the global companies such as SONY, Panasonic and Guardian Industries Corp., developing thin film technology for semiconductor, plat panel displays and flat glass industries. In 2010, he joined China Building Materials Academy in Beijing as the Chief Scientist for the National Research Center for Glass Processing and Associate Director of State Key Laboratory of Green Building Materials. His research there focused on the development of coated glass for engergy efficient buildings, smart windows and solar heat conversion materials. Since 2012, he's been actively promoting the Material Genome Initiative, a new paradigm for acceleration from materials descovery to deployment, in China. He was in the task forces of both Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Science for drafting the MGI Consultation report to the State Council of China and co-organizer of several MGI related high level conferences and forums. In April 2015, he was appointed Director, Materials Genome Initiative Center at SJTU. Dr. Wang was the author or co-author for more than 50 papers and credited for over 20 issued US, China and international patents.

Research Interest

Applying machine learning and data mining technique to large data set from high-throughput experiment for phase diagram construction and material discovery