Yi Wang
Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Yi Wang is an Associate Professor in mechanical engineering at the University of South Carolina (USC). He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. From 2005 to 2017, he held several positions of increasing responsibility at the CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC), Huntsville, Alabama. In 2017, he joined the University of South Carolina to start his academic career. His research interests focus on computational and data-enabled science and engineering (CDS&E), including reduced order modeling, large-scale and/or real-time data analytics, system-level simulation, computer vision, and cyberphysical system and autonomy with applications in aerospace, unmanned systems, manufacturing, and biomedical devices. He has been a PI or an institutional PI of 66 projects sponsored by DoD, NIH, MDA, NASA, DOT, and industries, and has published over 150 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Wang is a member of ASME and senior member of AIAA. He is also the recipient of the 2021 Research Breakthrough Star Award of USC.