Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Dr. Wang is the Leland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, jointly of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Radiology (Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford). He directs the Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology and is a leading expert in biosensors, information storage and spintronics. His research and inventions span across a variety of areas including Edge AI, magnetic biochips, in vitro diagnostics, cancer biomarkers, magnetic nanoparticles, magnetic sensors, magnetoresistive random access memory, and magnetic integrated inductors. He has over 360 publications, and holds 80+ issued or pending patents in these and interdisciplinary areas. He was named an inaugural Fred Terman Fellow, and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) and a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (FNAI) for his seminal contributions to magnetic materials, nanosensors and cancer diagnostics. He coauthored two textbooks: Magnetic Information Storage Technology (Academic Press) and Biochips and Medical Imaging (Wiley). In 2025 he was honored with an Achievement Award by IEEE Magnetics Society, its highest technical award, for his sustained contributions to magnetic nanotechnology, biosensors, and spintronics; his team won the First Place Prize of the 3rd Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC3), and its top-performing speech foundation model will be presented at the 2026 ICASSP in Barcelona.
Dr. Wang cofounded six high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, including Curve Biosciences and Magic Lifescience. In 2023, Curve Biosciences demonstrated a circulating tumor DNA NGS assay, enabling early detection of liver cancer from cirrhosis with unprecedented sensitivity and specificity; now Curve is pioneering chronic disease care based on Whole-Body Intelligence. Magic launched clinical trials to seek FDA clearance for its rapid NAT products at POC, and was honored for its disruptive technology in ADLM 2025 Conference. Through his participation and leadership in Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Semiconductor Research Corp (SRC) and Microelectronics Commons, he is actively engaged in the transformative R&D of healthcare, energy-efficient computing and edge AI.
Dr. Wang obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993, MS in Physics from Iowa State University in 1988, and BS in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986.
