Dr. Wayne Lung Wang (王文隆博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Wayne Lung Wang
- Chinese: 王文隆博士
- Era: 1944
- Geography: Yilan (宜蘭)
- Core roles: engineer, artist
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
- Ancient & Modern World Philosophy – Tao, Buddhism, Greek, Modern Philosophy. Humanistic & Social Psychology
Education
- Taipei Inst. of Tech. — 1959-1964 — Diploma, Mechanical Eng.
- Univ. of New Hampshire — 1965-1966 — Grad. School, Mech. Eng.
- Rensselaer Polytech, NY — 1966-1967 — Grad. School, Nuclear Eng.
- MIT, Cambridge, MA — 1967-1971 — Ph. D. Nuclear Eng.
Employment
- Carnegie-Mellon University, PA — Post Doc — (1971-1973) — Lawrence Berkeley Lab, CA — Post Doc — (1973-1975) — Argonne National Lab, IL — Associate Engineer — (1975-1980) — Bell Labs, IL — MTS — (1980-2010)
Role in the Community
The corpus shows Wang as both a community leader and a TAH philosophy essayist:
- Chicago community leadership: the Chicago Taiwanese Association history 2021) lists 王文隆 among the association’s presidents, for 1988 (between 林錦弘 1986 and 李義雄 1989) — he led the Chicago Taiwanese community while working at Argonne National Lab and Bell Labs.
- Philosophy writer for the TA Archives My Stories/Publications corpus: 2013), 2013), 2017), 2017), and the 2019 English sequels 1277. Beyond the Mystery of Tao (2019) and 1278. The True Meaning of Perennial Tao Philosophy (2019) — the engineer-artist dual role on his TAH profile is corroborated by this body of Tao/philosophy work.
- Own TAH entry: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1-wayne-lung-wang|TAH #1 Dr. Wayne Lung Wang 王文隆博士]].
- Artist-side collaboration and stage work: with painter 蔡烈輝 he co-authored the political-artwork piece 15. UN for Taiwan 台灣加入聯合國 (2014), and the Chicago cultural memoir 167. 咱的鄉土，咱的歌—芝城台灣文化促進會公演記實 (2015-08) credits him as 佈景設計 (set designer) for the association’s landmark stage production. His own memoir 628. 回鄉的經驗 (2018-02) is also in the corpus, and 黃根深’s 256. 寫在畫展之前 (2016-10) carries a corroborating artist note: 1944年生，宜蘭人.
- HOLD: the TAH profile’s era “1944” vs. a 1959–1964 Taipei Institute of Tech diploma (age ~15 at entry) — plausible but not independently confirmed; no auto-merge.
- Corpus re-verified（deepen-x slice 09150700-15, 2026-09-15）：命中集不變——本人 TAH #1 記錄、芝加哥台灣同鄉會史 #378（1988 會長任次）、哲學著作 publications 290／291／1143／1144；社群事跡已全數吸收於上，無新增素材。
- Corpus re-verified（deepen-x slice 09160316-9, 2026-09-16）：命中集不變（TAH #1、our-journeys-378 會長名錄 1988、publications 290/291/1143/1144）；上列社群事跡已全數吸收，無新增素材。
- New (slice 09160400-7, 2026-09-16):
- Seventh Tao-philosophy title in the corpus: 2013) — previously unlinked on this page; the site title dynamictaos.com in the TAJ column below derives from this work’s name.
- Movement-platform speaker: 翁進治’s memoir of the 45th 美東夏令會 (UCYE, 2016) 2016) lists him among the 台美人著名學者 keynote-side speakers (with 郭正昭 and 張繼昭) at the summer conference whose theme was 美國的安全與臺灣的自由.
- Regular columnist for 台美人電子報 Taiwan Justice (黃文龍’s publication): 疫情一年中的生活（2021-04-13, repr. 2025-04-30）, signed 王文隆, records his late-career community work — during the pandemic he self-published the 天然獨立 series on Amazon, built dynamictaos.com and the 文靜時間 YouTube archive, and for the three years before the pandemic he returned to Yilan Community University (宜蘭社區大學) every year to teach 討論傳統道家的錯誤、放眼世界看台灣歷史、寫自己的故事 — anchoring his Yilan geography with documented local-teaching service (TAJ 疫情一年中的生活, 2021-04-13; author tag 物理學博士王文隆 corroborates the nuclear-engineering-PhD public identity).
- False positive excluded: the 王文隆(土木) in the 台大校友連署清單 of the 2018-07-21 taiwanjustice 管中閔 protest letter is an NTU civil-engineering alumnus — this page’s subject holds a Taipei Tech diploma and an MIT nuclear-Eng PhD, so no merge.
Family
- Wife: Jennie
- Daughter: Morlie, Helena
- Son: Steve