Rate My Professor David Wang

Qiang (David) Wang is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering within the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University. He received his B.E. degree in 1993 from Tsinghua University in the People's Republic of China. Wang earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Professors Juan de Pablo and Paul Nealey. Following his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research from November 2002 to July 2004 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the guidance of Professor Glenn Fredrickson. At Colorado State University, Wang has been recognized with the George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award from the College of Engineering in 2009, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2008, and a nomination for the Outstanding Honors Academic Adviser Award in 2008.

Wang's research centers on computational investigations of soft materials, encompassing block copolymers, polymer brushes, polyelectrolytes, polymer blends, and nanocomposites. He utilizes a range of theoretical and simulation methods, including field theories, integral-equation theories, density-functional theories, molecular simulations, and mesoscopic simulations, to explore thermodynamic and dynamic behaviors across nano- to meso-scales. Key areas include fluctuation and correlation effects, self- and directed assembly, surface and interface phenomena, and structure-property relations in nanostructured polymeric materials. His laboratory has developed open-source software such as PSCF+ for polymer self-consistent field calculations. Notable publications include 'PSCF+: An Extended and Improved Open-Source Software Package for Polymer Self-Consistent Field Calculations' with J. He (Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025), 'A Unified Computational Framework for Polymer Self-Consistent Field and Density-Functional Theories' with J. Zhang and B. Li (Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025), 'Density-Functional Theories for Polyelectrolyte Systems' with J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and B. Li (Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2024), and the early work 'Self-Consistent Field Theory of Polyelectrolyte Systems' with T. Taniguchi and G. H. Fredrickson (Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2004). Wang collaborates with experimentalists to interpret results, validate models, and guide experimental design, contributing to hierarchical modeling that bridges multiple length and time scales.