Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Applied Mathematics

Title Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor of Applied Mathematics (Naval Postgraduate School)

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Adjunct Faculty

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
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Mail Stop No Mailstop

Biography, Education and Training

Wei Kang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nankai University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, all in mathematics. From 1991 to 1994, he was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1994, he has been with the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he served as department chair from 2018 to 2021. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2008 and a SIAM Fellow in 2025. From 2008 to 2011, he was a director at the American Institute of Mathematics, overseeing business and international collaborations. He has also served as a visiting scientist at Intel (2005) and a consultant for EPRI (2011–2012). Professor Kang’s research interests span computational mathematics, control systems, machine learning, data assimilation, bifurcations and normal forms, and their applications to power systems, space systems, robotics, and manufacturing process control.