Professor Charlie C. L. Wang is internationally recognised for his research in geometry-driven intelligence for design and manufacturing, establishing geometric computing and optimisation 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), where he holds 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.

Professor Wang has received numerous distinctions for research excellence, most notably two ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Best Paper Awards (2022 and 2025), a rare double distinction in geometric computing and computational fabrication. He has also received the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award (2016), ten Best Paper Awards overall, five project-oriented awards, and three teaching awards. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Solid Modelling Association (SMA).

His research interests include Digital Manufacturing, Computational Design, Additive Manufacturing, Soft Robotics, Geometric Computing, and Computer Graphics.