Graduated from Jilin University with a B.Sc in 1982. He joined the CUSPEA programme in 1982 and obtained Ph.D. (1987) in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University. He had postdoctoral positions at Rutgers University (USA), HLRZ Juelich and University of Mainz (Germany). His first job was at Hong Kong Baptist College from 1991 to 1993. Since 1993, he has been at National University of Singapore. He was in the Department of Computational Science, and now is a professor in the Department of Physics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2005) for his outstanding contributions to the development of novel computer simulation algorithms and for their use in the study of phase transitions and critical phenomena. Dr. Jian-Sheng Wang's research field has been in Monte Carlo method in statistical physics (with applications in critical phenomena and phase transitions, spin-glasses, nonequilibrium systems known as driven diffusive systems, random sequential adsorption, and research for efficient algorithms). He is well-known for the development of the cluster algorithm by the name Swendsen-Wang algorithm for simulation of Ising and Potts models. His current interests move to quantum thermal transport, nonequilibrium Green's function methods, and near-field radiative heat transfer.