Sam Wang (neuroscientist)

Samuel "Sam" Sheng-Hung Wang (born 1967) is an American professor, neuroscientist and author. He's known for the books Welcome to Your Brain and Welcome to Your Child's Brain, as well as for the Princeton Election Consortium psephology web site.

Wang was raised in Riverside, California. His parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the 1960s. He attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated in 1986 with a B.S. in physics with honors at the age of 19, making him the youngest member of his graduating class. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford University.

After receiving his Ph.D., Wang worked at Duke University as a postdoctoral fellow, in the United States Senate, and as a postdoctoral member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In the last position he learned to use pulsed lasers and two-photon microscopy to study brain signaling before coming to Princeton as Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology.

In 2006, Wang became Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His current research program addresses learning and plasticity in the brain, with a focus on the cerebellum, a major brain structure that processes unexpected sensory and other information, and guides movement and cognitive/emotional processing. He has a major interest in autism, a disorder in which the cerebellum has disrupted structure more often than any other brain region.

Wang has published over sixty articles on the brain in leading scientific journals and has received numerous awards. He gives public lectures on a regular basis and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Fox News Channel.

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