July 19,2005, Beijing, China:

R é S U M é ( Brief Biographic Sketch)

Dr. Sam S. Y. Wang

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Dr. Sam S. Y. Wang
F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor

Director, National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering

Registered Professional Engineer

 

Dr. Sam S. Y. Wang is an internationally renowned scholar and leader in education and research in hydroscience and engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) a founder of the Environment and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of ASCE, a founder of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER), and members and/or officer of more than ten professional societies. Presently, he chairs the national task committee of ASCE for Three-Dimensional Free Surface Hydrodynamic Model Verification, and Validation, a defacto international committee. He is a highly decorated researcher in his profession. Among many honors, awards and citations, he was the recipient of the 2003 ASCE Hans Albert Einstein Award. The citation reads, “Recognized worldwide for development and application of numerical-empirical models to advance our understanding of the erosion, sediment transport and morphodynamic processes; and to enable us in design structures for enhancing the waterway navigability and stream stability.”

 

Dr. Wang has been actively conducting and directing basic and applied research in the field of Computational Hydroscience and Engineering supported by many Federal and State agencies including: NSF, AFOSR, ARO, USDC-NOAA/MS-AL Sea Grant Consortium, US Geological Survey/Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute, US Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC (formerly, Waterways Experiment Station), USDA Agricultural Research Service, UNDP, UNESCO, among others. He has published more than 100 technical papers and 9 books.

 

•  Advances in Hydroscience and Engineering, Vol. V, UM, 2004

•  Advances in Hydroscience and Engineering, Vol. III, Brandenburg University of Technology , Germany , 1998

•  Environmental and Coastal Hydraulics, Vol. I & II, IAHR/ASCE, 1997.

•  Management of Landscapes is Distributed by Channel Incision, UM, 1997

•  Advances in Hydroscience and Engineering, Volume I, UM, 1993

•  Sediment Transport Modeling, ASCE, 1989

•  Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Vol. 14, UM 1988

•  River Sedimentation, Volume 3, UM 1986

•  Finite Elements in Water Resources, Volume 3, UM, 1980

 

In addition, he has many invited lectures including: Keynotes, Opening-Address/Special Lecturers delivered International Conferences and leading institutions in UK (Imperial College), Germany Hannover University), Poland (Academy of Sciences), Hungry (Water Research Center), The Netherlands (Delft Hydraulics), China (Several Hydraulic Research Institutes), Japan (Chuo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagoya and Kanazawa Universities), Switzerland (Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne), Australia, (Monash and Newcastle Universities), New Zealand (Auckland University), European Community (Joint Research Center), and many others in more than 30 countries on 6 continents, over the past 25 years.