Summary
Vincent Wang is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Duke University with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience spanning automation, prototyping, and laboratory research. He has applied mechanical, electrical, and software skills to industrial automation at Pfizer—maintaining PLCs and cGxP-compliant databases—and to advanced prototyping at BD, where he halved measurement time by automating optical scanning workflows. Comfortable from CAD and rapid prototyping to SQL and scripting, he pairs academic research with practical production improvements. A former long-term robotics competitor, he also tutors math, plays jazz saxophone, and builds custom PCs, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and creative curiosity. Fluent in English and Mandarin and studying additional languages, he brings cross-cultural communication and outreach experience to collaborative engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Duke University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cary Academy
Chinese, Spanish, Japanese