Ming L. Wang

About

Ming L. Wang is a distinguished professor at Northeastern University College of Engineering, specializing in civil and environmental engineering. His research focuses on network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections utilizing sensor technology for infrastructure, saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring, structural health monitoring for bridges, and subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems. He has contributed significantly to the development of innovative sensor systems, including a saliva-based nano-bio sensing system for disease diagnosis and monitoring, and has been recognized with multiple awards and patents for his work in biosensors and sensor technologies. Dr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in Structural Dynamics and Random Vibration from the University of New Mexico and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the International Society for Optics and Photonics, among others. He has been honored with awards such as the 2025 Faculty Research Team Award, Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and the Outstanding Translational Research Award from Northeastern University College of Engineering. His contributions extend to editing volumes on sensor technologies for civil infrastructures and securing patents for enzyme-based biosensors and…

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Composite material
• Polymer chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Cardiology
• Medicine
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• QoE-aware edge server placement in mobile edge computing using an enhanced genetic algorithm

  International Journal of Intelligent Networks · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access

  Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enhances service quality by decentralizing computational resources to network edges, thereby reducing latency and improving Quality of Service (QoS). However, the spatial distribution of edge servers critically impacts network transmission efficiency, while heterogeneous user perceptions of QoS metrics frequently lead to suboptimal Quality of Experience (QoE). Current research on Edge Server Placement (ESP) predominantly focuses on localized optimization of QoS metric…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Reserch: Sensor Fusion For Comperhensive Health Monitoring of Complex Infrastructure Systems - An Internatinal Testbed Opportunity

  NSF · $78k · 2009–2011

• US-China Cooperative Research in Integrated Health Monitoring with Emphasis on Earthquake and Natural Hazard Applications

  NSF · $120k · 2004–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Jinliang Zhang

  Henan University of Science and Technology

  46 shared

• George M. Lloyd

  ACTA (United States)

  37 shared

• Keli Han

  Shandong University

  35 shared

• Caizhen Zhu

  Shenzhen University

  30 shared

• Xiangzheng Li

  Tianjin University

  29 shared

• Guo‐Zhong He

  Kunming Medical University

  25 shared

• Jianhong Liu

  Shenzhen University

  22 shared

• Jian Xu

  17 shared

Education

• postdoc, Chemistry

  University of Missouri-St. Louis

  2006

• postdoc, Chemistry

  Duke University

  2005

• Ph.D, Chemistry

  New York University

  2003

Awards & honors

• 2025 Faculty Research Team Award – iSUPER Impact Engine
• 2015 Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Phot…
• Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Northeastern Universi…
• Outstanding Translational Research Award, Northeastern Unive…
• 2011 "Students Speak" Teaching Award

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