Richert Wang
Teaching Professor
He/Him/His
richert@cs.ucsb.edu
1151 Harold Frank Hall
Personal Website
Education
Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Awards
2016 UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Teaching Support Award
2020 UC Santa Barbara Faculty Career Development Award
2024 UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Teaching Award
Bio

Dr. Richert Wang is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Creative Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine in 2011 and was a lecturer of Computer Science at UC Irvine before joining UC Santa Barbara.

He has interned with Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D) and Google. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Wang primarily worked as a software development engineer for Amazon before pursuing his career in Computer Science education.

Research

Dr. Wang conducted research in parallel and distributed systems focusing on system design, resource management, and overlay routing mechanisms. Currently his main research area is in Computer Science education, specifically in broadening participation in Computer Science and interdisciplinary approaches in teaching Computer Science to students with various backgrounds and interests.