Sam Wang is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. An alumnus of theCalifornia Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with honor in physics, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993.He conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University Medical Centre and then at BellLabs Lucent Technologies. In the mid-1990s, he also worked on science and education policy for the U.S. Senate Committee on Labour and Human Resources. He joined thePrinceton University faculty in 2000. He currently has affiliate appointments in the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Centre for Cognitive Science, the Program in Quantitative andComputational Biology, and the Centre for Information Technology Policy.
Prof. Wang’s lab investigates how brains learn from sensory experience, in adulthood and development, with relevance for autism. His neuroscience research has been recognized and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Rita AllenFoundation, the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. He is also a member of the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
He is also the author of two popular books, Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your CarKeys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life (2008), which was named Young Adult Science Book of the Year by the American Association for theAdvancement of Science, and Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows fromConception to College (2011). The two books are available in over 20 languages.
Wang has published over one hundred articles on the brain in leading scientific journals andhas received numerous awards. He gives public lectures on a regular basis and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Fox News Channel.
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