Shi-Qing Wang was born in Beijing, raised in Harbin, and at 18 caught the first wave (after the Great Cultural Revolution) to enter college in spring 1978 (77 Gi).  He majored in Physics at Wuhan University.  In fall of 1981, he successfully participated in the China-US Physics Examination and Application (CUSPEA) program and ranked within the top 50 among over 500 participants who were pre-selected throughout China to compete in CUSPEA.    He arrived in the US in the fall of 1982 and completed his Ph.D. degree in Physics at University of Chicago in 1987, working with Karl Freed on polymer solution theory.  After two years of postdoctoral research at University of California at Los Angeles, Shi-Qing Wang joined the faculty of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, and rose from Assistant to Full Professor in 1998.  He was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997.  Since fall 2000, he has been in Department of Polymer Science at University of Akron.  His research interest is polymer physics and engineering.  His group currently focuses on re-establishing the experimental and theoretical foundations of (nonlinear) polymer rheology.  He currently holds guest professorship in Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing University and University of Science and Technology of China.