(Charlie C. L. Wang), Ph.D.

Dr. Charlie C. L. Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he began his academic career in 2003. He gained his B.Eng. (1998) in Mechatronics Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, M.Phil. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a member of IEEE and ASME, and an executive committee member of Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Product and Process Development (CAPPD) of ASME. Dr. Wang has received a few awards including the ASME CIE Young Engineer Award (2009), the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award (2008), and the Best Paper Awards of ASME CIE Conferences (in 2008 and 2001). His current research interests include geometric modeling in computer-aided design and manufacturing, biomedical engineering and computer graphics, as well as computational physics in virtual reality.