{"638808":{"#nid":"638808","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wang Chosen for ARCS Scholar Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETony Wang, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been chosen for an ARCS Scholar Award. He is one of only 14 Ph.D. students from Georgia Tech to receive this fellowship this year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCS Scholars are selected annually by qualifying departments of science, engineering, and medical research within the ARCS Foundation\u0026rsquo;s 51 academic partner universities and colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u0026rsquo;s research is focused on developing micro-robots to perform neurosurgery. He is advised by Azadeh Ansari, an assistant professor in ECE, and Kimberly Hoang, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang has also worked as a graduate teaching assistant for ECE 3005\u0026ndash;Professional and Technical Communications for ECE during fall 2019 and spring 2020 and was a terrific asset to the School\u0026rsquo;s Undergraduate Professional Communications Program (UPCP), according to Christina Bourgeois, the director of UPCP.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang graduated with his B.S. degree in materials science and engineering with a minor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also interned at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was awarded the LLNL Research Award for his contributions towards laser optics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOutside of research, Wang volunteers as a graduate student coordinator for the Mental Health Student Coalition to improve awareness about mental health on campus. His hobbies include hiking, table tennis, and swimming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Tony Wang has been chosen for an ARCS Scholar Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Tony Wang has been chosen for an ARCS Scholar Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-09-04 20:52:14","changed_gmt":"2020-09-04 20:57:27","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638809":{"id":"638809","type":"image","title":"Tony Wang","body":null,"created":"1599253001","gmt_created":"2020-09-04 20:56:41","changed":"1599253001","gmt_changed":"2020-09-04 20:56:41","alt":"photograph of Tony Wang","file":{"fid":"242901","name":"TW Photo-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TW%20Photo-cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TW%20Photo-cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2048026,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TW%20Photo-cropped.jpg?itok=gN-LDg-W"}}},"media_ids":["638809"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.neurosurgery.emory.edu","title":"Department of Neurosurgery"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.med.emory.edu","title":"Emory University School of Medicine"},{"url":"https:\/\/arcsfoundation.org\/scholars\/about-arcs-scholars","title":"ARCS Scholar Awards"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"185796","name":"Tony Wang"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"185797","name":"ARCS Scholar"},{"id":"2305","name":"Emory University"},{"id":"177467","name":"Emory School of Medicine"},{"id":"185798","name":"micro-robots"},{"id":"25131","name":"neurosurgery"},{"id":"175301","name":"Azadeh Ansari"},{"id":"185799","name":"Kimberly Huang"},{"id":"185800","name":"Emory Department of Neurosurgery"},{"id":"185801","name":"Undergraduate Professional Communications Program"},{"id":"185802","name":"Mental Health Student Coalition"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}