Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializing in science, technology, and politics in modern US, China, and transnational contexts. Born in China and originally trained in physics, he received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara and has published In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (2008) and other books. He is currently studying the history of Chinese American scientists and US-China relations, for which he received a grant from the National Science Foundation (2010-2014). He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019. Recently he has appeared in the documentary Your Serve or Mine about US-China cultural, educational, and scientific exchanges that premiered on PBS in May 2025. (Old home page 1999-2022 archived here)
王作跃(Zuoyue Wang)1986年从中国科学院赴美留学，1994年获得加州大学圣巴巴拉分校(UC Santa Barbara)博士学位，现任加州州立理工大学普莫娜分校(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)历史系教授，主要研究美国、中国和跨国近现代科技史。发表中英文著作包括《在卫星的阴影下：美国总统科学顾问委员会与冷战中的美国》和《科技革命与美国现代化》。2010-2014年获得美国国家科学基金会(NSF)资助，研究留美华人科学家历史。2019年当选为美国科学促进会会士(AAAS Fellow)。
