He is an Adjunct Professor of Lanzhou University, Nankai University, Tsinghua University, Yunnan University, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2004 he accepted a position as Research Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Department of Electronic Engineering and in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Wang was appointed Chair Professor of Language Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. After his official retirement, he served as Director of the Chao Yuen Ren Center for Chinese Linguistics and Professor of Graduate School at Berkeley until 2000. In 1973, he founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, the first international publication in the field, and continues as its editor till this day, with its office at the Project on Linguistic Analysis at Berkeley. Wang accepted a position as Professor of Linguistics at the University of California in Berkeley in 1966, and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1994. There he established a Department of Linguistics and a Department of East Asian Languages, and served as the first Chairman of both.Īfter a visiting professorship sponsored by the Department of Chinese and Department of Anthropology of the National Taiwan University, Prof. He returned to teach at the University of Michigan for a year before accepting a position at the Ohio State University. He also held a post-doctoral appointment at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on problems of speech analysis. Wang undertook research on machine translation from Russian to English at the I.B.M. Aspects of his research in this area were published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.Īfter his graduate studies, Prof. The dissertation, completed in 1959, was one of the first studies to apply the combined knowledge of linguistics and acoustics to the problem of machine recognition of speech. dissertation in the laboratories of Prof. He went on to pursue graduate studies in linguistics at the University of Michigan, and wrote his Ph.D. While still a freshman, he coauthored a musical production of the Chinese legend, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid, which was performed at the International House of New York. In 1951, he won a four year scholarship to Columbia College in New York City. ![]() Professor Wang was born in Shanghai, where he received his early schooling.
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