Chris Wang
Dr. Wang has twenty-eight years of combined industry and
academic experience in nuclear engineering, radiation health
physics, and medical physics. In the last seventeen years, he has
been a professor of the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and
Medical Physics Program at Georgia Tech. His research areas
include radiation detection, dosimetry, biophysical modeling of
cell response to radiation, and neutron therapy modalities for
cancer treatment. Most recently he has been developing a new type
of gas proportional counter that employs gas electron multipliers.
The new detector has a plate-like geometry as opposed to the
traditional cylindrical or spherical geometry. As such, the new
detector has advantages for detecting high-energy neutrons at
proton therapy facilities and for homeland security applications.