Shan Wang's Biography

Shan Wang, Leland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University

Dr. Wang is the Leland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University. He is a Professor and Associate Chair of Materials Science & Engineering and jointly a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and by courtesy, a Professor of Radiology (Stanford School of Medicine). He directs the Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology, and is a co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence for Translational Diagnostics (CCNE-TD) at Stanford University. He has over 270 publications, and holds 59 issued or pending patents in the areas of magnetic nanotechnology and information storage, biosensors, spintronics, and power management. He was named an inaugural Fred Terman Fellow, and he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) for his seminal contributions to magnetic materials and nanosensors. His team won the Grand Challenge Exploration Award from Gates Foundation (2010), the XCHALLENGE Distinguished Award (2014), and the Bold Epic Innovator Award from the XPRIZE Foundation (2017). He cofounded three high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, including MagArray, Inc. and Flux Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Wang obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993, MS in Physics from Iowa State University in 1988, and BS in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986.