The central theme of Associate Professor Wang’s group bridges the gap between additive manufacturing and ultraprecision machining technologies through investigations on material characteristics and functionality, post-process procedures, and surface finishing with multi-scale machining and polishing.

We develop Advanced Techniques to improve manufacturing efficiency, such as multi-physical field

assisted and robot-based machining and polishing.

We establish Theoretical Frameworks based on a multi-scale approach bridging atomistic discussions in DFT and molecular dynamics to mesoscale kinematics in finite element modeling.

Our research is built on the demand for New Applications of different Material Categories presently covering brittle optical-grade materials and difficult-to-machine metals.

We endeavor to tackle the problems faced in industrial practices with the current manufacturing techniques and propose new Emerging Technologies for precision manufacturing.

Our research methodology aims to bridge the gaps with material specific perspectives from the bottom up and advanced processing techniques from the top down.