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Qi Wang is a Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina, where he has been on the faculty since 2008. He previously served as Professor at Florida State University from 2003 to 2009 and Associate Professor there from 2001 to 2003, as well as Assistant and Associate Professor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis from 1991 to 2001. Wang earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University in 1991, M.S. in Mathematics from the same university in 1988, and B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University in 1982. He was appointed College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina from 2013 to 2019 and holds an adjunct appointment as Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research centers on applied and computational mathematics, encompassing modeling and computation of soft matter, complex fluids, and biological systems; fluid mechanics and rheology of complex fluids; non-equilibrium theories across multiple scales; numerical methods for partial differential equations; high-performance computing; and data science and machine learning applications in materials and life sciences.

Wang leads the Computational Science and Mathematical Modeling Laboratory at the University of South Carolina and has published 169 journal papers, edited four special issues or books, and delivered over 117 invited talks at national and international meetings along with 88 colloquium and seminar presentations. Notable recent publications include 'Theoretical examination of the hydroxide transport in cobaltocenium-containing polyelectrolytes' in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2023), 'Main-Chain Cobaltocenium-Containing Ionomers for Alkaline Anion-Exchange Membranes' in Macromolecules (2023), and 'Efficient High-Order Supplementary Variable Methods for Thermodynamically Consistent Partial Differential Equations' in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2023). He received the 2020 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. Wang serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B since 2004 and Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences since 2009. His work is funded by major grants including NSF RII Track-1 awards as PI or Co-PI totaling tens of millions of dollars.