Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China since 1993, Dr. Wang earned his MS degree in solid mechanics from the same university, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, USA. Prof. Wang has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, the University of Oklahoma and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has published over 200 papers in the areas of numerical methods and computational engineering, mechanics of composite materials and experimental finite plasticity, with over 50 of these related to the differential quadrature method.