Junmin Wang is a Professor and holds the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

He began his academic career at Ohio State University in 2008, where he was early promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and then very early promoted to Full Professor in 2016. In 2018, he joined UT Austin as the Accenture Endowed Professor.

Prior to academia, he gained five years of industry experience at Southwest Research Institute. Prof. Wang’s research spans control, modeling, estimation, optimization, diagnosis, and AI for dynamical systems, with applications in automotive systems, smart and sustainable mobility, robotics, human-centric automation, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Wang has authored or co-authored more than 420 peer-reviewed publications including 207 journal articles and holds 13 U.S. patents.

He is the recipient of numerous international and national honors and awards, including the ASME Charles Stark Draper Innovative Practice Award, IEEE Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award, IEEE Andrew Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, NSF-CAREER Award, SAE International Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, and ONR Young Investigator Award. Prof. Wang has also been honored as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar by U.S. Department of State, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is an SAE Fellow, ASME Fellow, and IEEE Fellow.