Chengyang Wang is currently a professor in Tianjin University, China. He graduated from School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University in 1982. And he received the Ph.D degree from Hokkaido University in 1998. He has acquired the Technology Invention Award of Tianjin in 2005, the Science and Technology Progress Award of Tianjin University in 2002. For his great achievements and outstanding contributions in the field of carbon materials science and engineering of China, he received the 11^th Carbon Outstanding Achievement Award of China in Nov. 2015 and the Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation achievement Award of China in Dec. 2016.

His current research interests involve new carbon materials from pitches and carbonaceous mesophase; carbon materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors; coal chemical processing and coal tar utilization. The book named《Carbon mesophase theory and application》 has been published by China Science and Technology Press in 2015. He presides over 40 research projects, containing the National 973/863 project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and et al. He has published more than 300 papers in the International journal and society, including Carbon, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Power Sources and et al.