Wenbin Wan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and his M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He was appointed as a MechSE Teaching Fellow at UIUC, named a CPS Rising Star by the University of Virginia. He was selected as an NM SPARK Scholar at UNM.