Ben Wang

Wang earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and later master's and Ph.D. degrees, also in industrial engineering, from Pennsylvania State University. He was a Professor of Engineering, Director of the High-Performance Materials Institute, and served as Assistant Vice-President for Research in Engineering at Florida State University. In 1998, Wang founded the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies. He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, holds the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair in Manufacturing, and is the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute.