Professor and Chair in Smart Manufacturing | Department Head of Research
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The University of Manchester
Address: Core One, 4th Floor, Nancy Rothwell Building, Booth St E, Manchester M1 7HL
Email: charlie.wang@manchester.ac.uk
Research interests:
Digital Manufacturing, Computational Design, Additive Manufacturing, Soft Robotics, Geometric Computing, and Computer Graphics.
Professor Charlie C.L. Wang is internationally recognized for his research in geometry-driven intelligence for design and manufacturing, where he has established geometric computing and optimization as foundational mechanisms for intelligent engineering solutions. His work has transformed the integration of design, analysis, and fabrication by embedding manufacturability, material behaviour, and process constraints directly into geometric design variables, enabling adaptive, high-performance manufacturing systems across additive and hybrid processes. He is currently a Professor as Chair in Smart Manufacturing at the University of Manchester (UoM) holding an EPSRC Open Fellowship (2023-2028) on Field Computation Based Kernel for Vector 3D Printing. Before joining UoM in 2020, he worked as Professor and Chair of Advanced Manufacturing at Delft University of Technology and as Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Wang has received numerous recognitions, including the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award (2016), ten Best Paper Awards, five project-oriented awards, and three teaching awards. He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Solid Modelling Association (SMA).
Our paper "Curve-based slicer for multi-axis DLP 3D printing" (ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol.44, no.6, article no.194, 2025) received the Best Paper Award - Technical Papers at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, December 15-18, 2025, Hong Kong
Dr. Guoxin Fang, who graduated from our group in 2022, has joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering in October 2023
Dr. Rob Scharff, who graduated from our group in 2021, has joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design in January 2023
Our project "Multi-axis robot-based bioprinting system supporting natural cell function preservation and cardiac tissue fabrication" won the MedTech Award in 3D Pioneers Challenge, May 2022
