Rate My Professor Xueyi Wang

Xueyi Wang is a Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University, holding the position of Principal Research Scientist/Engineer IV. He earned his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, in 1998, M.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, and B.S. from Anhui Education Institute in 1989. His career includes post-doctoral fellowships at the Space Science Institute, National Central University, Taiwan (1998-2000), and the Department of Physics at Auburn University (2002-2007), as well as research fellow positions at the Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1992-2002). At Auburn, he advanced from Visiting Scientist (2000-2001) and Assistant Research Professor (2007-2012) to Associate Research Professor (2013-2020) and Research Professor (2020-present).

Wang's research specializes in space plasma physics. He has developed and applied the 3-D global hybrid model (Angie3D) to study plasma kinetic processes at the bow shock and magnetosphere and their interactions with interplanetary discontinuities. Additionally, he utilizes the general curvilinear particle-in-cell (GCPIC) code for simulating fast magnetosonic, chorus, and EMIC waves in Earth's inner magnetosphere, and the gyrokinetic electron fully kinetic ion (GeFi) code for collisionless reconnection and lower-hybrid wave physics. He received the Excellent Prize of the President Scholarship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998 and is a member of the American Physical Society and American Geophysical Union. Wang serves as a referee for journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Geophysical Research Letters, Earth Moon and Planets, and Chinese Journal of Space Science. Notable publications include "A source of energetic particles associated with solar flare" (Astrophys. J., 2001), "Generation of nonlinear Alfvén wave and magnetosonic waves by beam plasma interaction" (Phys. Plasmas, 2003), "Two-Dimensional gcPIC Simulation of Rising-Tone Chorus Waves in a Dipole Magnetic Field" (J. Geophys. Res., 2019), and "Global Asymmetries of Hot Flow Anomalies" (Geophys. Res. Lett., 2022).