Senior Distinguished R&D Staff
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Hong Wang received the BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Huainan Institute of Mining Engineering (Huainan Mei Tan Xue Yuan) in 1982, and master and doctorate degrees with distinguished grade in process control and power plant engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Huazhong Gong Xue Yuan, a top 10 Chinese University), Wuhan, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He moved to UK in 1988 and was a postdoc Research Fellow with Salford University (Salford, UK), Brunel University (Uxbridge, UK) and Southampton University (Southampton, UK) before joining the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, U.K., in 1992 as a lecturer in process control. He was then promoted to senior lecturer and reader in 1997 and 1999, respectively at UMIST. Wang was a Chair Professor in Process Control of complex industrial systems at the University of Manchester (a top 25 university in world ranking) from 2002 to 2016, where he was the deputy head of the Paper Science Department, director of the UMIST Control Systems Centre between 2004 - 2007 (which is the birthplace of Modern Control Theory established in 1966). He was University Senate member and a member of general assembly for many years during his time in Manchester.
Between 2016 – 2018, he was with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US Department of Energy (PNNL, Richland, WA, USA) as a Laboratory Fellow and Chief Scientist, and was the co-leader and chief scientist for the Control of Complex Systems Initiative (https://controls.pnnl.gov/team.stm). Hong Wang joined Oak Ridge National Lab at corporate fellow grade (Comp Title/Job) in January 2019. He is currently a PI for several projects from DoE on transportation systems, hydropower systems and manufacturing systems.
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Field Testing and Evaluation of a Predictive Bilinear Signal Control on a Signalized Corridor
Monday, June 17, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET