Evelyn Wang

Evelyn N. Wang is Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) where she leads energy research and development programs for the Department of Energy. Prior to joining ARPA-E, she served as Ford Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During her time at MIT, she focused on thermal management, thermal energy conversion and storage, and water harvesting and purification. Wang was previously the Associate Director of the MIT Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, a DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center. Earlier in her career, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent and as a consultant for the Defense Science Study Group, where she advocated for collaboration between academia and national defense to solve issues of national security.

Wang holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.