About Shanyuan Wang’s work
Based at China Textile University, Shanyuan Wang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from November 1993 to May 1994.
Biography
Shanyuan Wang graduated from the Textile Department of East China Institute of Textile Technology in 1959 with an undergraduate degree, and in 1967 with a postgraduate degree. From 1981 to 1983, he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and collaborated with professor S. Backer. From 1993 to 1998, he was a Visiting professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wang is an Adjunct professor at Suzhou University, Jiangnan University, and Zhejiang Science and Technology University, an Honorary professor at Xi'an Engineering University and Jiaxing University.
Wang’s research interests include textile material properties, filament deformation processing, and fiber-reinforced composite materials. Wang's representative works Deformed Yarn and New Textile Yarn have far-reaching influence at home and abroad. Wang established the Wang Excellent doctoral Fund in 2009 to reward doctoral students with outstanding achievements in innovative research in doctoral dissertations in the textile and clothing disciplines, and to promote the improvement of the quality of doctoral dissertations in textile science and engineering.