Ming L. Wang
COE Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, VOTERS
Contact
- mi.wang@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 429 SN
- 617.373.3900
Research Focus
Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems
Education
- Ph.D., Structural Dynamics and Random Vibration, University of New Mexico, 1983
- M.S., Civil Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1980
Honors & Awards
- 2015 Fellow of International Society for Optics and Photonics
- Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Northeastern University College of Engineering
- Outstanding Translational Research Award, Northeastern University College of Engineering
- 2011 “Students Speak” Teaching Award
- 2001 College of Engineering Research Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 1989-1992 Halliburton Lectureship Award, University of New Mexico
- 1987 Jefferson Goblet Paper Award
Professional Affiliations
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- British Society of Strain Measurement
- International Association for Fracture Mechanics of Concrete
- International Society for Optics and Photonics, Fellow
- Material Research Society
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- Society of Experimental Mechanics
Research Overview
Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems
Selected Research Projects
- Breath and Saliva Based Nano-Bio Sensing System for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring
- – Principal Investigator, Carecom
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- X. Ma, H. Liu, M.L. Wang, Automatic Detection of Steel Rebar in Bridge Decks from Ground Penetrating Data, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 158, 2018, 93-102
- W. Zhang, S. Nazarine, M. Wang, S. Cranford, Sensor Design via Scaled Collision Theory, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2018
- M. Wang, W. Zhang, Saliva Glucose Monitoring System, US 9244035 B2, 2016, Licensed to NanoBio LLC, 2017
- W. Zhang, M.L. Wang, S. Khalili, S. Cranford, Materiomics for Oral Disease Diagnostics and Personal Health Monitoring: Designer Biomaterials for the Next Generation Biomarkers, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 20, 2016, 12-29
- N. Martino, K. Maser, R. Birken, M.L. Wang Quantifying Bridge Deck Corrosion Using Ground Penetration Radar, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, 27(2), 2016, 112-124
- W. Zhang, M.L. Wang, S. Cranford, Ranking of Molecular Biomarker Interaction with Targeted DNA Nucleobases via Full Atomistic Molecular Dynamics, Scientific Report, Nature Publishing Group, 6, 2016, 18659
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation to Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
Jul 07, 2022
Wang Publishes 2nd Edition of Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures
CEE Professor Ming Wang is the editor of the 2nd edition of “Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures” – Volumes 1 and 2.
Oct 26, 2020
Startups to improve accessibility and walkability
The Northeastern spinout company StreetScan was featured in EJInsight article “Startups to improve accessibility and walkability.”
Aug 04, 2020
Patent for Saliva-based Glucose Monitoring System for Diabetes
CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for “Saliva glucose monitoring system”.
May 07, 2020
Reconfiguring a Diabetes Monitoring Device to Test for COVID-19.
CEE Distinguished Professor Ming Wang is repurposing a device he created to monitor diabetes into something people could use to track the spread of COVID-19.
Mar 19, 2019
Wang Awarded Patent for Wireless SWNT Sensor
CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for “Wireless SWNT sensor integrated with microfluidic system for various liquid sensing applications.”
May 01, 2018
Faculty and Staff Awards 2018
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2017-2018 academic school year.
Apr 02, 2018
Real-time Pavement Profile Sensing System
CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for creating a “Real-time pavement profile sensing system using air-coupled surface wave”.
Mar 19, 2018
Why did Miami bridge collapse? More than one reason likely
CEE Professor Ming Wang was interviewed by NBC News in the article “Why did Miami bridge collapse? More than one reason likely” for the safety systems that should be in place during the installation of new bridges.
Feb 15, 2018
Wang Awarded Patent
CEE Professor Ming Wang awarded patent for “Conformal & configurable millimeter-wave integrated array radar in a compact package”. Abstract Source: USPTO The invention provides a compact, high-frequency, transmit and receive millimeter-wave radar sensor device, system, and method of use. The sensor can operate at a variety of distances, speeds, and resolutions depending on the hardware […]