Associate Professor
He Wang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Previously he was a Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, and a Senior Research Associate at Disney Research Los Angeles.
He is a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and an Academic Advisor at the Commonwealth Scholarship Council. He serves as an Associate Editor of Computer Graphics Forum and a programme committee member of a number of major international conferences.
His research interest is mainly in computer graphics, computer vision and artificial intelligence, where he publishes broadly in several areas with award-winning publications. In computer graphics, he specialises on character animation and physical simulation, aiming to make the next-generation artificial intelligence tools for content creation and editing.
University College London
Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, University College London (UCL) is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 16,000 staff and 50,000 students from over 150 different countries. UCL has been consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in the world in various rankings and hosts 30 Nobel laureates.
UCL came second in the UK for research power in 2021’s Research Excellence Framework, where 93 per cent of the research was graded ‘world leading’. Recently, UCL is named as the University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. UCL is ranked 9th in the world, and the second in the world for the strength of international research network in 2024 QS World University Rankings.