Gender: male; Nationality: Han

Born: 1942; Shanghai

Professor; delegate to the 15th National Congress of the CPC; delegate to the 9th National Political Consultative Conference; delegate to the 6th and the 7th CPC Congress of Shanghai; member of the 7th Shanghai Committee of the CPC; delegate to the 7th and the 10th People's Congress of Shanghai; member of the 5th National Youth Federation; Vice-president of the 5th Youth Federation of Shanghai; Vice-chair of the 5th China Education Association for International Exchange; member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong; member of the International Academic Advisory Panel of the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

Wang graduated from the Department of Precision Mechanical Engineering of the Shanghai University of Science & Technology in 1965. He pursued further studies and researches at the departments of Civil Engineering and Mechanic Engineering of Purdue University from March 1981 to August 1982, at the Department of Space Engineering of the University of Arizona, and at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Texas from February to June, 1983.

He was Executive President of the Shanghai University of Science & Technology, Director of the Office of Education and Health of Shanghai, Deputy Party Secretary of the Commission of Education & Health, Director of the Division of the United Front of the Shanghai CPC Committee (also as President of the University of Shanghai, Director and Party Secretary of the Higher Education Bureau of Shanghai, Chair of the Shanghai Education Association for International Exchange, etc.) and Chair of the Shanghai Overseas Friendship Association. He has been Vice-chair of the People's Political Consultative Conference of Shanghai since 1995 and President of Fudan since 1998. He holds honorary doctorates of the University of Manchester of the U.K., the National University of Ireland, Waseda University of Japan, and Chonnam National University of South Korea. His many titles and awards include "Outstanding Worker in the Frontline of Science & Technology of Shanghai", "Outstanding Worker in the Frontline of Education of Shanghai", "Shanghai Model Worker", President's Medal from George Washington University of the U.S.A., and so forth.

He became one of the chair professors appointed by the Ministry of Education, and was Associate Director of the China Electro-Mechanical Engineering Association from 1980 to 1990, and was long engaged in the teaching and researches of the structural design of precision tracking radars, radio telescopes and large-scale antenna systems, and computational mechanics. He was in charge of many research projects including "Twenty-meter Satellite-antenna System within the K.C Frequency Range", "Six-meter-caliber Long Baseline Interferometer Radio Telescope", "Optimal Design of the Large-scale Antenna System", and "Reliability Analysis of Macrostructures", all of which won him a Third Prize of the Shanghai Awards for Scientific Research Achievements in 1978, an Chinese Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific & Technological Breakthroughs in the 6th Five-year Plan in 1986, a First Prize of the National Awards for Scientific & Technological Advancement in 1987, a First Prize of the Shanghai Awards for Scientific & Technological Advancement in 1990, a First Prize for the National Education & Scientific Research Achievements in the same year, and so on. Besides his major monographs Structural Design of Electronic Apparatus and Finite Element Method and Its Application, he has published more than forty theses.