Dr. Wang received a B.S. and an M.S. degree in applied mathematics and mechanics in 1984 and 1987, respectively, from Peking University, and an Sc.D. degree in hydrometeorology in 1997 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2012 and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2018. Dr. Wang has been conducting fundamental research to advance the Earth system science through building a theoretical foundation of innovative methods of monitoring and modeling hydrological, meteorological, climatological, oceanographical and ecological processes. Notable accomplishments include a new formalism of the second law governing the direction and rate of the evolution of broad radiative and thermodynamic non-equilibrium systems, non-gradient models of water, energy and carbon fluxes, Amazon deforestation and cloud climatology, and the maximum entropy production theory of radiative transfer for the Earth remote sensing, extraterrestrial exploration and beyond.