Education

  • Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1989
  • M.S., Tuskegee Institute, 1978
  • National Tsing-Hua University, 1976

Teaching Interests

Professor Wang has taught many courses in both nuclear engineering and medical physics over the past 35 years. These courses include radiation physics, radiation detection, diagnostic imaging physics, radiation dosimetry, internal dosimetry, radiation protection and shielding, Monte Carlo methods and applications in nuclear engineering and medical physics, and radiation biology and oncology. Most recently, he has been mostly responsible for teaching required courses for the medical physics program.

Research Interests

Professor Wang’s research areas, in a broad sense, include radiation detection, radiation dosimetry, and radiation biology. More specifically, he has done research in neutron detection and spectrometry, microdosimetry, nanodosimetry, and radiobiological modeling of radiation-induced effects. The results of his research have found applications in various high-LET radiotherapy modalities, including neutron capture therapy (NCT), Cf-252 neutron brachytherapy (NBT), proton and carbon-ion therapy, and targeted alpha therapy.

Recent Publications

  • Charyyev, S. and Wang, C. K., “Assessment of Ambient Neutron Dose Equivalent in Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy with Protons using Physical Collimators,” Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 189, No. 2, pp. 190-197, April 2020.
  • Charyyev, S., Artz, M., Szalkowski, G., Chang, C., Stanforth, A., Lin, L., Zhang, R. and Wang, C. K. “Optimization of hexagonal-pattern minibeams for spatially fractionated radiotherapy using proton beam scanning,” Medical Physics, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 3485-3495, August 2020.
  • Lim, A., Andriotty, M., Yusufaly, T., Agastha, G., Lee, B. and Wang, C. “A fast Monte Carlo cell-by-cell simulation for radiobiological effects in targeted radionuclide therapy using pre-calculated single-particle-track standard DNA damage data,” Front. Nucl. Med., 3:1284558, doi: 10.3389/fnume.2023.1284558, December, 2023.
  • Andriotty, M., Wang, C., Kapadia, A., McCord, R. Agasthya, G., “Integrating chromosome conformation and DNA repair in a computational framework to assess cell radiosensitivity”,  Physics in Medicine and Biology, 69(24), doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad94c6, December, 2024.
  • Herchko, S., Yaddanapudi, S., Wang, C., “Design and validation of a minibeam treatment delivery system for use with a radiation therapy research platform,” Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 11(4), doi: 10.1088/2057-1976/adcf2c, May, 2025.