Guangqiang Wu, Fellow of CSAE, SAE and ASME, received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Jilin University in July 1994. From August 1994 to August 1996, he was a postdoctoral researcher and associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology. From September 1996, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering, Tongji University; from June 2000, he served as a full professor; from March 2001, he served as Professor (Grade II) and doctoral supervisor, and Director of the Institute for Automotive Simulation Science, School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University. In August 2009, after passing the rigorous evaluation of the University of Tokyo, Japan, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo as a part-time formal faculty member. From January to February 2012, he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. From July 2012 to September 2016, he was a visiting professor at the Automotive Research Center, University of Michigan, USA. From June to September 2017, he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Mechatronic Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He founded the Sino-Japanese Joint Research Center for Advanced Automotive Technology, the GETRAG Chair of Automotive Transmission at the Sino-German College of Tongji University, the Tongji-SACHS Joint Research Institute of Hydrodynamic Transmission, and the Tongji University School of Automotive Studies-Gelubo Technology Joint Research Institute for Intelligent Driving, and serves as their head.

[Other academic position]

Professor Wu concurrently serves as an evaluation expert for the National Science and Technology Progress Awards; Committee Member of the Basic Software Branch of the China Society of Automotive Engineers; Committee Member of the Fluid Transmission and Control Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and Member of the Hydrodynamic Transmission Technology Committee; Expert for the Review of Senior Professional and Technical Positions in Automotive Specialty, Shanghai; Committee Member of the China Automotive Transmission Standardization Committee; Member of the SAE Materials, Modeling, and Testing Committee; Organizer of the Load Simulation and Vehicle Performance: Nonlinear Components/Systems session; Member of The Vehicle Design Committee (VDC) and Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) of ASME; Organizer of AVT3-Advances in Methods for Ground Vehicle Systems Design; Member of the IEEE VTS Committee on Autonomous Vehicles and Senior Member of IEEE. He is also Responsible Editor of the international journal International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Vehicle Performance, and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology and several other domestic journals.

[Research field]

His research interests include theories and methods for advanced automotive design and collaborative simulation, automotive nonlinear dynamics and control, intelligent driving technology, connected and automated vehicle & ground (CAVG), especially intelligent autonomous planning, decision-making and dynamics control, and various automatic transmissions (AT/AMT/DCT/CVT), including related technologies for new energy vehicles (EV/HEV/FCV).

[Achievements]

He has published more than 410 papers in important domestic and international academic journals and international conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and Nonlinear Dynamics, more than 300 of which are indexed by SCI/EI. He has authored monographs such as Vehicle Hydrostatic Drive and Its Intelligent Control and Automotive Digitalized Development Technology (supported by the High-Level Works Fund of China Machine Press), published the translated work Fahrzeugdynamik, and served as chief editor of Automotive Theory (now in its third edition), a national planning textbook for general higher education during the 11th Five-Year and 14th Five-Year Plan periods. These books are held by libraries of many famous universities in the United States, Germany, Japan, and other countries. He also contributed to the Automotive Engineering Handbook, Principles and Design of Modern Passenger Car Automatic Transmissions, and other works. He has led more than 60 projects, including the National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program), National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, and international cooperation projects with UTC of the USA and CONTINENTAL of Germany. He has obtained nearly 100 national invention patents and 32 national computer software copyrights, and has been responsible for formulating or revising 3 automotive industry standards. He has won the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award and the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Young Faculty Fund Award. As first completer, he has received 3 second prizes and 2 third prizes for provincial/ministerial Technological Invention Awards; 3 second prizes and 4 third prizes for provincial/ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards; 2 second prizes for provincial/ministerial Teaching Achievement Awards; 1 first prize for the Shanghai Regular Higher Education Excellent Textbook Award; 1 first prize and 2 second prizes for Excellent Works from the Shanghai Automotive Industry Education Foundation; and the Grand Prize of the Tongji University Excellent Textbook Award in 2025. He has also received the Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent Award of China Automotive Industry and the GM China University Automotive Innovation Talent Award. In addition, he was named an Outstanding Young Teacher of Shanghai Universities in 1999 and the 8th Shuguang Scholar of Shanghai.

The undergraduate course Automotive Theory, led by Professor Wu, was rated as a Shanghai Excellent Course in 2007 and a Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Course in 2020, and was recommended by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission for application as a 2009 National Excellent Course. The course Modern Vehicle Design Theory and Methods, for which he is responsible, is a Tongji University Graduate Excellent Course. He is also a Tongji University Teaching Master. He has supervised 4 postdoctoral fellows and nearly 40 doctoral students, some of whom have become famous scholars in the automotive field at home and abroad, and many of whom have become professors, academic leaders, or leaders at well-known universities. He has supervised more than 130 master's students and recommended a considerable number of undergraduates and master's students to pursue master's and doctoral degrees at famous universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and other countries. In each cohort, many students have received the National Scholarship for Doctoral/Master's Graduate Students and first- or second-class or higher awards in the National Graduate Mathematical Modeling Contest; some have received honors such as Tongji University Outstanding Doctoral Student and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate. In addition, he has supervised two French international students.

Professor Wu has extensive cooperation and exchanges with first-class universities and famous professors in Europe, the United States, Japan, and other regions and countries, and has high influence in international academia. He has been invited to give keynote addresses or invited speeches at many important international academic conferences, such as MOVIC2010 (The 10th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control) organized by the University of Tokyo and the SAE 2014 World Congress in the USA, and has given academic lectures at Stanford University and many other famous foreign universities.