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E u r o S c i C o n C o n f e r e n c e o n
Nanotechnology &
Smart Materials
Nano Research & Applications
ISSN 2471-9838
O c t o b e r 0 4 - 0 6 , 2 0 1 8
Am s t e r d a m , N e t h e r l a n d s
Nanotechnology & Smart Materials 2018
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Biography
Prof. L. Q. Wang received his PhD from University of Alberta (Canada) and is currently a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong.
He is also the Qianren Scholar (Zhejiang) and serves as the Acting Executive Director for the Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI), the University of Hong Kong
and as the Director and the Chief Scientist for the Laboratory for Nanofluids and Thermal Engineering at HKU-ZIRI. Prof. Wang has over 30 years of university experience in thermal
& power engineering, energy & environment, transport phenomena, materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and applied mathematics in Canada, China/Hong Kong, Singapore
and the USA, and 2 years of industrial experience in technology and IP development/management/transfer as the Chief Scientist & the Global CTO.
Prof. Wang has secured over 80 projects funded by diverse funding agencies and industries including the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Science Foundation
of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, totaling > US$ 20m. Prof. Wang has published 10 books/monographs and over 390 book chapters and technical
articles including 3 in the Nature Communications, 1 in the PNAS and 12 in the Physical Review Letters, many of which have been widely used by researchers all over the world,
and been ranked amongst the top 1% of most-cited scientists (ESI). Prof. Wang has also filed 36 filed patents/SoftwareCopyrights and led an international team in developing a
state-of-the-art thermal control system for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station. The AMS project is headed by Professor Samuel C. C. Ting
(Nobel laureate in Physics, MIT, USA) and is to search for antimatter, dark matter and spectra of cosmic rays.
Prof. Wang has received various awards, including the recent TechConnect Global Innovation Award at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo (TCWI) 2018 (Ana-
heim, CA, USA; May 13-16, 2018), the Silver Medal at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (Palexpo, Geneva, Swiss; April 11-15, 2018), the Innovation Award by
the Optical Society (Singapore; July 25-28, 2017), and the First Outstanding Achievement Award of Hangzhou Oversea Scholars (Hangzhou Municipal Government, China; 2016).
His research has been widely featured by local, national and international media.