Dr. Zhenyuan Wang graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Fudan
University in Shanghai in 1962. Then he taught at Hebei University in
China. From 1979 to 1981, he visited France and worked in the Laboratory for
Calculus of Probabilities and the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in
the University of Paris VI. He began research on nonadditive measures and
nonlinear integrals there.
During the eighties of the last century, as an associate professor and then
a full professor (since 1986), he continued his teaching and research in the
Department of Mathematics, Hebei University, and served as the Chair of the
department there for five years. He holds the title of National Expert
with Outstanding Contributions awarded by the Chinese National
Scientific and Technological Commission in 1986.
Zhenyuan Wang came in the United States in 1989 and worked at the State
University of New York at Binghamton as a visiting professor and research
scientist until 1997. He created some new mathematics courses, such as
Statistical Modeling with Imprecise Probabilities and Fuzzy Measure
Theory, at the Ph. D. level there. Supported by the grants from the
Office of Naval Research and the Air Force of the US, he developed
applications of nonadditive measures in expert systems and artificial
intelligence. He received his Ph. D. in system sciences from SUNY-Binghamton
in 1991.
During the academic year of 1997-1998, as a research fellow, Zhenyuan Wang visited the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the next three years, he taught graduate and undergraduate mathematics courses in New Mexico State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. Zhenyuan Wang joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in August of 2001. Zhenyuan Wang’s main research interests are measure and integration, probability and statistics, optimization, soft computing techniques (including genetic algorithms and neural networks), and data mining. He is the author or co-author of one book and one hundred papers. Last year, he received the Citation Classic Award conferred by the Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, USA) for his paper on nonlinear integrals published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications in 1984. Currently, he serves as a member of the editorial board for three academic journals: Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Journal of Measure Theory and Applications, and International Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics.