Current Position and Appointments
Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, 2018 to present
Deputy Director, ASIAA, Sep 2021 to present
ALMA-Taiwan Project Scientist, Nov 2015 to present
Past Position and Appointments
Associate Research Fellow, ASIAA, 2013 to 2018
Resident Astronomer, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Aug 2014 to Oct 2015
Assistant Research Fellow, ASIAA, 2009 to 2013
Postdoctoral fellow (Jansky Fellow), 2006 to 2009, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Education
B.S. in physics, 1996, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
M.S. in astronomy, 1998, Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Taiwan.
(Thesis: Multiwavelength Studies of Luminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 6670. Supervisor: K.-Y. Lo, T.-H. Chiueh)
Ph.D. in astronomy, 2006, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa
(Dissertation: High Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies. Advisor: L. L. Cowie)
Awards and Honors
Jansky Fellow, 2006 to 2009, NRAO
Selected Recent Publications
A more complete list can be found here.
Hwang, Y.-H., Wang, W.-H., et al. Revisiting the Color-Color Selection: Submillimeter and AGN Properties of NUV-r-J Selected Quiescent Galaxies, 2021, ApJ, 913, 6
Lim, C.-F., Chen, C.-C., Smail, I., Wang, W.-H., et al., SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). IV. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses of 450 μm-Selected Submillimeter Galaxies, 2020, ApJ, 895, 104
Lim, C.-F., Wang, W.-H., et al., SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). III. Multiwavelength Properties, Luminosity Functions, and Preliminary Source Catalog of 450 μm Selected Galaxies, 2020, ApJ, 889, 80
Toba, Y., Wang, W.-H., et al., SOFIA/HAWC+ View of an Extremely Luminous Infrared Galaxy: WISE 1013+611, 2020, ApJ, 889, 76
Wang, T., et al., A Dominant Population of Optically Invisible Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe, 2019, Nature, 572, 211
Chang, Y.-Y., Ferraro, N., Wang, W.-H., et al., SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES) II: Structural Properties and Near-Infrared Morphologies of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies, 2018, ApJ, 865, 103
Wang, W.-H., et al., SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): Faint-End Counts at 450 μm, 2017, ApJ, 850, 37
Simpson, J., Smail, I., Wang, W.-H., et al., An Imperfectly Passive Nature: Bright Sub-millimeter Emission from Dust-Obscured
Star Formation in the z = 3.717 "Passive" System, ZF20115,” 2017, ApJL, 844, 10
Wang, W.-H., et al., SXDF-ALMA 2-arcmin2 Deep Survey: Stacking of Near-Infrared Selected Objects, 2016, ApJ, 833, 195
Wang, W.-H., Kanekar, N., & Prochaska, J. X., A Search for Hα Emission in High-Metallicity Damped Lyman-α Systems at z ~ 2, 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2832
To, C.-H., Wang, W.-H., & Owen, F. N., Star Formation Rate and Extinction in Faint z ~ 4 Lyman-Break Galaxies, 2014, ApJ, 792, 139
Wang, W.-H., Chen, H.-W., & Huang, L.-J., ALMA Submillimeter Continuum Imaging of the Host Galaxies of GRB 021004 and GRB 080607, 2012, ApJL, 761, 32
Hsieh, B.-C., Wang, W.-H., Hsieh, C.-C., Lin, L., Yan, H., Lim, J., & Ho, P. T. P., The Taiwan ECDFS Near-Infrared Survey: Ultradeep J and Ks Imaging in
the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South, 2012, ApJS, 203, 23
Hsieh, B.-C., Wang, W.-H., Yan, H., Lin, L., Karoji, H., Lim, J., & Ho, P. T. P., The Taiwan ECDFS Near-Infrared Survey: Very Bright End of the
Luminosity Function at z > 7,
2012, ApJ, 749, 88
Wang, W.-H., Barger, A. J., & Cowie, L. L., A Ks and IRAC Selection of High-Redshift Extremely Red Objects, 2012, ApJ, 744, 155
Wang, W.-H., Cowie, L. L., Barger, A. J., & Williams, J. P., SMA Observations of GOODS~850-11 and GOODS~850-13—First Examples of Multiple
Submillimeter Sources Resolved by
an Interferometer, 2011, ApJL, 726, 18
Wang, W.-H., Cowie, L. L., Barger, A. J., Keenan, R. C., & Ting, H.-C., Ultradeep Ks Imaging in the GOODS-N, 2010, ApJS, 187, 251
Invited Talks in Conferences/Workshops
SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES): What Have We Learned So Far?, NEP Conference, Nov 2020, Taipei, Taiwan (and online).
Recent SMA High-z Results, Science with the Submillimeter Array: Present and Future, Nov 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
ALMA Observations of High-z Galaxies that Demand a Wider Bandwidth, in East Asian ALMA Development Workshop 2018, Dec 2018, Osaka, Japan.
TolTEC Survey: Single-Dish/Interferometer Synergy, in Past Current and Future Galaxy Surveys: CANDELS Meeting and TolTEC Workshop, Oct 2018, Amherst, USA.
Origin of the Cosmic Far-IR Background Radiation, in The 9th Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide, July 2017, Beijing, China
STUDIES: SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey, in the JCMT Users Meetings, April 2016, Mitaka, Japan and Feb 2017 Nanjing, China.
Submillimeter Imaging of High-z Galaxies: SMA’s Achievement, in The Submillimeter Array: First Decade of Discovery, June 2014, Cambridge, USA.
The Secret of the Universe: Cosmology and Exoplanet, in the pre-meeting of the 7th France-Taiwan Frontiers of Science, also chair of the physical science
division, March 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. “Unveiling the Dark Side of the Universe with Multiwavelength Observations, in the 7th France-Taiwan Frontiers of Science,
June 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
Hidden Monsters in the Submillimeter, in the 2012 Fall Korean Astronomical Society Meeting, October 2012, Gwangju, Korea.
Radio and Submillimeter Continuum Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies, in Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies (IAU Symposium 292),
August 2012, Beijing, China.
Interferometric Observations of Submillimeter Galaxies, in Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, June 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
Linking the Submillimeter Sources to Galaxy Formation and Evolution, in the 4th Japan-Taiwan ALMA Science Workshop, April 2008, Mito, Japan.
Courses
Advanced Observational Astronomy, 2020 fall semester, master level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, 2020 spring semester, master level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
(co-teaching with Dr. Yen-Ting Lin)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, 2018 spring semester, master level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
(co-teaching with Dr. Yen-Ting Lin)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, 2016 spring semester, master level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
(co-teaching with Dr. Yen-Ting Lin and Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution,” 2014 spring semester, undergraduate level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
(co-teaching with Dr. Yen-Ting Lin and Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, 2013 spring semester, master level course in NTU Astrophysics Institute.
(co-teaching with Dr. Yen-Ting Lin and Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang)
Software Development
SIMPLE Imaging and Mosaicking PipeLinE
(SIMPLE)—A data reduction package for professional optical and near-infrared wide-field mosaic imaging.
Major Public Talks
Public talk: Chasing the Black Sun (the 2017 North-American Total Solar Eclipse), in the 2017 Academia Sinica Public Open House, Oct 2017, Taipei, Taiwan
Invited talk: Current State of Astronomy in Taiwan, in a governmental internal training course in the Ministry of Forestry, May 2016, Taipei, Taiwan
Keynote Speech: Astrophotography—Past and Future, in Workshop for Astrophotography, April 2012, hosted by the Science Education Center of
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Public talk: Finding the Universe's First Light, in the “Prospect” (展望) Lecture Series, April 2011, Taipei, Taiwan
Invited talk: Ultrawidefield Imaging—A New Dimension in Astrophotography, in AstroImage Conference 2004, hosted by Orange County Astronomers,
Los Angeles, California.
Books
Advanced Wide-Field Astrophotography (星野攝影)
1st edition, 2006, ISBN 978-986-82859-0-3
2nd edition, 2013, ISBN 978-986-82869-1-0
3rd edition, 2019, ISBN 978-986-82859-2-7