Wenhui Wang's Biography

Wenhui Wang, Professor, Tsinghua University

Wenhui Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University, China. He received his B.E. in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering (1998) and M.E. in Systems Engineering (2001) from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. After one year of working in Lenovo, he returned to school and earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2005). He then received 2-year Postdoctoral training in the University of Toronto, prior to becoming a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2007. In late 2012 he relocated to Tsinghua University under the Chinese Government Young 1000-Talent Plan program. His current research interests include BioMEMS and microfluidic devices and systems, aiming for bio-micro-manipulation and analysis of single cells and whole animals like C. elegans. He won several Best Paper Awards in conferences including IEEE CASE 2007 and 3M-NANO 2013. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.