Ming L. Wang

COE Distinguished Professor,  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Contact

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

Research Centers and Institutes

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

Faculty

Feb 01, 2024

Celebrating Bioengineering at Northeastern: Visions for the Future

The Department of Bioengineering hosted a 10 year anniversary celebration to commemorate what the department has accomplished and showcase its plans for the future.

Faculty

Dec 07, 2023

2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations

The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those […]

Faculty

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.

Volume 1 and 2 of book

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.

In the Media

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.”

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Faculty

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”.

components of a biosensor diabetes device

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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.”

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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”.

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