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Prof. Mengze WANG is a Presidential Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityUHK in 2026, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Themistoklis Sapsis and Prof. Raffaele Ferrari since 2023.  He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (2022) and B.Sc. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Peking University (2016). His research focuses on developing data assimilation and machine learning methods for high-dimensional dynamical systems, with applications in aerospace engineering and geophysical flows. He has published over 10 articles on top journals in fluid mechanics and computational physics, and one book chapter. His honors include the Corrsin-Kovasznay Outstanding Paper Award and Andrea Prosperetti Travel Award from Johns Hopkins University.

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• Data assimilation & Nonlinear optimization
• Transitional and turbulent flows
• Machine learning with limited data
• Extreme events in complex engineering systems