Dr. Hai Wang

Dr. Hai Wang is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Fuel Science from Penn State in 1992. He is best known for his work on the mechanisms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and carbon formation in reacting flows and development of chemical kinetic models for fuel pyrolysis and combustion. He made contributions in the application of ab initio quantum chemistry and reaction rate theory in chemical kinetics. He developed stochastic methods for detailed modeling and uncertainty quantification. He contributed to the transport theories of nanoparticles and large molecules, atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry, and nanomaterials synthesis and its applications in solar cells and lithium ion batteries. He was the recipient of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellant and Combustion Award in 2018, and the Humboldt Research Award in 2019. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute. He served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science from 2014 to 2024. He is currently the President of the Combustion Institute, an international, non-profit, educational and scientific society.