Xing Wang is an assistant professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering. Wang received a B.S. in engineering physics from Tsinghua University in 2011, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 and 2016, respectively. Before joining Penn State, Wang was a postdoctoral research associate in Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2017 to 2019.

• BS, Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, 2011
• Ph D, Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Journal Articles

Mahjabin Mahfuz, Farshid Reza, Xingyu Liu, Rongming Chu, Maik Lang, Michael Snure, Xing Wang and Miaomiao Jin, 2024, "Microstructural changes in GaN and AlN under 950?MeV Au swift heavy ion irradiation", Applied Physics Letters, 124, (11), pp. 112104

Xinyuan Xu, Zefeng Yu, Wei-Ying Chen, Aiping Chen, Arthur T Motta and Xing Wang, 2024, "Automated analysis of grain morphology in TEM images using convolutional neural network with CHAC algorithm", Journal of Nuclear Materials, 588, pp. 154813

Ashrakat Saefan, Xingyu Liu, Eric Lang, Levko Higgins, Yongqiang Wang, Osman El-Atwani, Jean Paul Allain and Xing Wang, 2023, "Effects of transition metal carbide dispersoids on helium bubble formation in dispersion-strengthened tungsten", Scientific Reports, (13), pp. 13352

Xing Wang, Ke Jin, Chun-Yin Wong, Di Chen, Hongbin Bei, Yongqiang Wang, Maxim Ziatdinov, William J. Weber, Yanwen Zhang, Jonathan Poplawsky and Karren L. More, 2022, "Understanding effects of chemical complexity on helium bubble formation in Ni-based concentrated solid solution alloys based on elemental segregation measurements", Journal of Nuclear Materials, 569

Zefeng Yu, Xinyuan Xu, Wei-Ying Chen, Xing Wang, Aiping Chen, Christophier J. Ulmer and Arthur T. Motta, 2022, "In-situ irradiation-induced grain growth kinetics and mechanism of nanocrystalline UO2", Acta Materialia, 231

Xing Wang, Hongliang Zhang, Tomonori Baba, Hao Jiang, Cheng Liu, Yingxin Guan, Omar Elleuch, Thomas Kuech, Dane Morgan, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Paul M. Voyles and Izabela Szlufarska, 2020, "Radiation-induced segregation in a ceramic", Nature Materials, 19, pp. 992–998

Xing Wang, Constantinos Hatzoglou, Brian Sneed, Zhe Fan, Wei Guo, Ke Jin, Di Chen, Hongbin Bei, Yongqiang Wang, William J. Weber, Yanwen Zhang, Baptiste Gault, Karren L. More, Francois Vurpillot and Jonathan D. Poplawsky, 2020, "Interpreting nanovoids in atom probe tomography data for accurate local compositional measurements", Nature Communications, 11, pp. 1022

Xing Wang, Ming-Jie Zheng, Izabela Szlufarska and Dane Morgan, 2017, "Continuum model for hydrogen pickup in zirconium alloys of LWR fuel cladding", Journal of Applied Physics, 121, (13), pp. 135101

Xing Wang, L Jamison, K Sridharan, Daniel James Morgan, PM Voyles and I Szlufarska, 2015, "Evidence for cascade overlap and grain boundary enhanced amorphization in silicon carbide irradiated with Kr ions", Acta Materialia, 99, pp. 7--15

Xing Wang, Marat Khafizov and Izabela Szlufarska, 2014, "Effect of surface strain on oxygen adsorption on Zr (0 0 0 1) surface", Journal of Nuclear Materials, 445, (1-3), pp. 1--6

• Distinguished Early Career Program (DECP) Award, U.S. Department of Energy, August 2023

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