Joseph Wang

Joseph Wang is the SAIC Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Nanoengineering in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. He earned his D.Sc. from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1978. From 1978 to 1980, he served as a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined New Mexico State University in 1980, advancing to Regents Professor and Manasse Chair from 2001 to 2004. Between 2004 and 2008, Wang was Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Arizona State University, where he also directed the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the Biodesign Institute. Since joining UC San Diego in 2008, he chaired the Department of Nanoengineering from 2014 to 2019 and currently directs the Center for Wearable Sensors. Wang founded the Wiley journal Electroanalysis, serving as its Chief Editor from 1988 to 2017, and has been an instructor for the ACS Short Course on Electrochemical Sensors as well as a member of the IUPAC commission for electroanalytical chemistry.

Wang's research specializes in nanomachines, wearable sensors, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, nanobioelectronics, nanorobotics, nanoactuators, biosensors, and related fields including nanomaterials-based sensors, biofuel cells, and point-of-care diagnostics. He has authored over 1,300 research papers with an h-index of 222 and more than 190,000 citations, 60 patents, 40 book chapters, and 12 books, including Analytical Electrochemistry (fourth edition, Wiley-VCH, 2023), Nanomachines: Fundamentals and Applications (Wiley-VCH, 2013), and Nanobiosensing. His profound impact is evidenced by recognitions as the most cited scientist in engineering worldwide from 1991 to 2001, top-ranked in analytical chemistry, and Highly Cited Researcher annually from 2014 to 2024. Major awards include the 2024 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Award, NSF Special Creativity Award (2008), ACS Award for Electrochemistry (2006), ACS Award for Chemical Instrumentation (1999), Breyer Medal (2012), Spiers Memorial Award (2013), and fellowships in AIMBE, RSC, ECS, and election to the US National Academy of Inventors. Wang has delivered over 350 invited and plenary lectures across 60 countries.

Professional Email: josephwang@eng.ucsd.edu