Rate My Professor Andy Wang

Dr. Ziteng (Andy) Wang is a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University. He obtained his PhD in 2023 from the University of Sydney, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, with a thesis entitled "Exploring the transient radio sky with ASKAP," under the supervision of Associate Professor Tara Murphy.

Wang's research focuses on radio astronomy, specializing in the discovery and study of radio transients, pulsars, and variable sources using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). He has made substantial contributions to key surveys, including the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) with papers on its first (2023) and second (2024) mid-frequency data releases, and the Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Pilot Survey (2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia). His highly cited publications include "Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network" (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2020; 306 citations), an ASKAP search for a radio counterpart to the neutron star-black hole merger LIGO/Virgo S190814bv (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2019; 72 citations), and a comprehensive search for the radio counterpart to GW190814 (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022; 36 citations).

As lead author, Wang discovered ASKAP J173608.2−321635, a highly polarized transient point source (The Astrophysical Journal, 2021), the young highly scattered pulsar PSR J1032-5804 (The Astrophysical Journal, 2024), and reported radio eclipses from 4FGL J1646.5−4406 (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024). In 2025, he led the detection of X-ray emission from the bright long-period radio transient ASKAP J1832-0911 (Nature), the first such object observed in both radio and X-rays. Additionally, Wang spearheaded testing of the CRACO real-time astronomical detection system, which exceeded expectations in identifying transient objects. With over 1,010 citations on Google Scholar, his work significantly impacts time-domain radio astronomy.