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Dr. Junmin Wang is the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and a full professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received the B.E. degree (with honors) in Automotive Engineering and his first M.S. degree in Power Machinery and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing China in 1997 and 2000, respectively; his second and third M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Prof. Wang started his academic career at Ohio State University as assistant professor in 2008 and was early promoted to associate professor in September 2013 and then very early promoted to full professor in June 2016. In 2018, he left Ohio State University and joined University of Texas at Austin as Accenture Endowed Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Wang has a wide range of research interests covering control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, smart, automated, and sustainable mobility applications. His research contributions include the development of control and estimation methods that advance efficiency, cleanliness, and driving safety of conventional, electrified, connected and automated vehicles. He has five years of full-time industrial research experience (2003-2008) at Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) where he was a Senior Research Engineer and led research projects sponsored by more than 50 industrial companies and governmental agencies worldwide. Prof. Wang’s research programs have been funded by federal agencies and industrial companies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Department of Energy (DOE), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Army Research Lab (ARL), Texas Department of Transportation, GM, Ford, Honda, Tenneco, Eaton, Denso, Ftech, and others.
Prof. Wang is a recipient of the ASME Charles Stark Draper Innovative Practice Award, IEEE Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award, IEEE Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, Ohio State University Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, Ohio State University Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Ohio State University Lumley Research Award, SAE International Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR-YIP) Award. Prof. Wang is an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Distinguished Lecturer, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, SAE Fellow, ASME Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and IEEE Fellow.
Professor Junmin Wang has served as General Chair of 2023 IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IEEE-IAVVC), General Chair of 2021 (inaugural) AACC-IFAC Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference, an Senior Editor, Editor, Technical Editor, or Associate Editor for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IFAC Control Engineering Practice, IFAC Mechatronics, ASME Transactions Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Vehicle Systems Dynamics, Journal of the Franklin Institute, and SAE International Journal of Engines. He has served as Chair of the ASME Automotive and Transportation Systems Technical Committee, Chair of the SAE International Control and Calibration Committee, and Vice Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems.
Prof. Wang has supervised 21 Ph.D. students and 2 post-doc researchers to completion with 12 of them being faculty members at various universities and 11 of them as researchers in industry and government. Dr. Wang is the author or co-author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications including 200 journal articles and 13 U.S. / European patents. He received 8 best paper awards from IEEE, ASME, and SAE.