Dr. Yong Wang is Senior Lecturer with the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He was OECD Fellow for the Co-operative Research Programme: Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems, collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, April-June 2024. Prior to joining UNSW, he was Research Fellow with Monash University, Clayton, Australia (2019-2020) and Research Scientist (Senior Engineer) with COFCO Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Beijing, China (2011-2019), including 6-month Australian Endeavour Fellowship with The University of Queensland in 2016. He got his PhD from joint program of China Agricultural University and University of California Davis in 2011. His research area includes food structure design (including mechanical properties for solid foods and rheological design for liquid/semi-solid foods), food processing technology (drying, emulsion, encapsulation), plant-based food developments, and human mimicking digestion system.

He published 130 journal papers & 8 book chapters (till November 2023), applied 21 patents (8 granted till August 2021), and has 8 public/internal research funds as leader role (over 1 million AU$ in total since 2011).

Editor: Food Chemistry X (Elsevier). Associate Editor: Measurement: Food (Elsevier). Editorial Board Member: Food Chemistry (Elsevier)