Dr. Sam Wang

Biography

Sam Wang is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. He received a B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993. Following his doctoral studies, Wang conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University Medical Center and Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies. In the mid-1990s, he worked in science education policy with the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2000, and he currently holds affiliate appointments in the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Center for Cognitive Science, and the Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology. His research focuses on the circuit mechanisms of the cerebellum and brain-wide processing, aiming to understand how the brain learns from sensory experiences into adulthood, with particular relevance to autism. Wang's work has received support from various foundations, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the W.M. Keck Foundation. He is also the author of popular science books that have been translated into multiple languages, including 'Welcome to Your Brain' and 'Welcome to Your Child's Brain'.

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