CBE welcomes three new faculty
Xiaoguang (William) Wang joined Ohio State as a tenure-track assistant professor in January 2019 after working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with Professor Joanna Aizenberg on the design of functional materials based on stimuli-responsive soft matter.
He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his doctoral research with Professor Nicholas L. Abbott focused on liquid crystal-templated assembly of colloids and molecules.
Professor Wang’s current research interests revolve around the design of novel dynamic and responsive materials and systems based on colloidal and interfacial phenomena.
This knowledge will not only span fundamental understanding, but also form the basis of a class of stimuli-responsive materials for use in a wide range of technologies.
Dr. Wang’s 29 peer-reviewed articles to date have been published in such journals as Nature, Nature Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-USA, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials. He has four patents and two additional patents pending.
Xiaoxue Wang will join Ohio State as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019.
Her research interests focus mainly on the structure-property engineering of polymers synthesized by the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) method, electronic device fabrication based on CVD polymers, and applying machine learning in materials development.
Dr. Wang is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is working on applying machine learning in chemical synthesis.
She received her PhD in chemical engineering in 2018 from MIT, where she received the MRS Graduate Student Silver Award (2018), the ChemE Practice School Fellowship (2014), and the Robert T. Haslam Fellowship (2012). Her advisors at MIT have been Karen Gleason (PhD) and Klavs Jensen (post-doctoral).
Professor Wang has published 16 peer-reviewed papers to date, including articles in Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and ACS Sensors.
She won multiple prizes, honors, and scholarships at Tsinghua University, where she earned her BS in chemical engineering.
Joel Paulson will join us as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and multiple awards for research and outstanding teaching and mentoring. His advisors were Professors Richard Braatz and Michael Strano.
Dr. Paulson is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of engineered products and processes through the development of advanced decision-making strategies in the presence of uncertainty, formulating these strategies in terms of stochastic mathematical optimization problems that can be applied to a broad range of applications.
Professor Paulson has published three book chapters and 14 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Organic Process Research & Development, Journal of Process Control, and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
He was a finalist for the 2017 International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Conference Best Paper Award.
