Wentao Wang (王文韬), Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2160 G. G. Brown Building,
2350 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Email: wangwent@umich.edu Tel:(+1)734-647-5572
Dr. Wentao Wang is currently a research faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from Harbin Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Hui Li and Prof. Jerome P. Lynch . His CV is attached.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Research Scientist Jun. 2021 – present
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Investigator Jan. 2020 – May. 2021
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(Postdoctoral) Research Fellow Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2019
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
RESEARCH
Structural health monitoring (SHM), Non-destructive testing/evaluation (NDE/T), Acoustic emission (AE) technique, Ultrasonic testing, Lamb wave, SH wave, earthquake and etc.
Damage detection and risk assessment in drinking water system including transient modelling and assessment of pipe structural capacity;
Compressive sensing (CS), Digital signal processing, Wavelet transform, Support vector machine (SVM), Relevance vector machine (RVM), Deep mining, Big data and etc.
d36 type wafer phased array, PZT wafer, Acoustic emission sensor, Ultrasonic probe and etc.
Smart city, Wireless sensing, Edge computing, Neuron network.
Wearable sensor, Biocompatible prosthesis sensor development.
Meta-materials, Meta-structures, Acoustic Meta-material.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2016
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(HIT), Harbin, CHINA
Total GPA:90.0/100 (3.87/4) Rank:1/23
M.S. in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering Sep. 2010 – Jul. 2012
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(HIT), Harbin, CHINA
Total GPA:83.5/100 (3.69/4) Rank:6/198
B.S. in Engineering Mechanics Sep. 2006 – Jul. 2010
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(HIT), Harbin, CHINA
Total GPA:88.1/100 (3.72/4) Rank:1/44
HONORS & AWARDS
2007 National Endeavor Fellowship of China (National level)
Excellent student of Harbin Institute of Technology
2008 Thomas T. C. Hsu Scholarship of Honors School
First prize of people scholarship of Honors School
Excellent student of Harbin Institute of Technology
2009 National Scholarship of China (National level)
First prize of people scholarship of Honors School
Second prize of National College Students Innovation Experiment Program
2010 Thomas T. C. Hsu Scholarship of Honors School
Excellent student of Harbin Institute of Technology
‘Best student dissertation’ of Harbin Institute of Technology
2011 First prize of postgraduate student scholarship of Harbin Institute of Technology
Excellent student of Harbin Institute of Technology
2012 1st Place of Structure control and SHM competition in APSS (Asia-Pacific Summer School)
Excellent graduates of Harbin Institute of Technology
2013 Guanghua Scholarship of Graduate student
Excellent student of Harbin Institute of Technology
2014 Outstanding student leaders of Harbin Institute of Technology
2015 National Scholarship of China of Graduate student (National level)
Excellent student of Heilongjiang Province (Provincial level)
2016 Excellent graduates of Harbin Institute of Technology
2022-2023 University of Michigan, College of Engineering Outstanding Research Scientist Award (Nomination)
ACTIVITIES
2011 The 6th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology (ANCRiSST-2011), Dalian, China
2012 Asia-Pacific Summer School of Smart Structures Technology (APSS-2012), Bangalore, India
2013 Proceeding of the SPIE, San Diego, California, US
2015-2016 Visiting student in University of Michigan supported by China Scholarship Counsil (CSC).
2017.03 Proceeding of SPIE, NDE and Health Monitoring, Portland, OR, United States
2017.09 IWSHM-2017, Stanford, California, United States
2017.10 “Fitbit-style prosthetics? Navy developing 'smart' artificial limbs” (Link)
2017.11 Invited Seminar : “Guided Wave Based Sensing Approaches for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)”
2018.03 Proceeding of the SPIE, Smart Structures+ Nondestructive Evaluation, Denver, CO, United States
2019.09 The 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA
2018.07-2020.05 Serves as the Guest Editor of Sensors, an International Journal
2021.01-now Serves as the Guest Editor of Sensors, with a Special Issue "Smart Sensors and Machine Learning Technique for Damage Detection and Visualization"