Professor Wang was the founding Head of Department of Mechatronics and Robotics. He is an IET Fellow and a senior member of IEEE. He is also a team leader of the Talented Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneur Program. He has broad academic working experience in China, England, Wales, and Scotland of more than 20 years. He has extensive research experience in Internet of Things (IoT), wireless mesh networks, indoor positioning, big data analytics, and applications for smart cities. Along with more than 30 research projects sponsored from the EU, the UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, China NSFC, and industry, his research in each area has led to an impactful industrial product. For example, the smart trolley, which has been deployed at more than 10 airports in China, he has developed with industrial partner is the first in the world to provide an IoT solution aiming at providing intelligent airport services for passengers. His collaborative research in acoustic localisation with Zhejiang University has won the first place in Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition in sound group. He has nearly 200 publications and has filed dozens of patents, including 15 granted patents in the US, Japan, South Korea, and China. His research has been classified as World Leading at the UK's REF assessment. The highest citation number of a single technical paper is nearly 600.
Professor Wang was the founding Head of Department of Mechatronics and Robotics. He is an IET Fellow and a senior member of IEEE. He is also a team leader of the Talented Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneur Program. He has broad academic working experience in China, England, Wales, and Scotland of more than 20 years. He has extensive research experience in Internet of Things (IoT), wireless mesh networks, indoor positioning, big data analytics, and applications for smart cities. Along with more than 30 research projects sponsored from the EU, the UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, China NSFC, and industry, his research in each area has led to an impactful industrial product. For example, the smart trolley, which has been deployed at more than 10 airports in China, he has developed with industrial partner is the first in the world to provide an IoT solution aiming at providing intelligent airport services for passengers. His collaborative research in acoustic localisation with Zhejiang University has won the first place in Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition in sound group. He has nearly 200 publications and has filed dozens of patents, including 15 granted patents in the US, Japan, South Korea, and China. His research has been classified as World Leading at the UK's REF assessment. The highest citation number of a single technical paper is nearly 600.