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Joseph Wang, PhD
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California

Joseph Wang is Distinguished Professor, SAIC Endowed Chair, and former Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He served as the director of Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors of Arizona State University (ASU) before joining UCSD.  Prof. Wang has published more than 1200 papers, 11 books and he holds 30 patents (H Index=189, >140,000 citations). He received 2 ACS National Awards in 1999 (Instrumentation) and 2006 (Electrochemistry), ECS Sensor Achievement Award (2018), the IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal (2021), IEEE Sensors Achievement Award (2021), Spiers Memorial Award (2013), the Breyer and Heyrovsky Medals from Australia and Czech Republic, respectively, and 6 Honorary Professors from Spain, Argentina, Czech Republic, Romania, China and Slovenia. Prof. Wang is RSC, ECS and AIMBE Fellow and a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (2015-2021). His scientific interests are concentrated in the areas of bioelectronics, wearable devices, biosensors, nanomachines and microrobots.