Dr Shidong Wang, FRSA

D Shidong Wang has served as the Director of the Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. Prior to moving to Oxford in 2011, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, following the completion of his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany. He currently holds Visiting Professorships at Fudan University and the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in China.

Dr Wang's research spans multiple disciplines, with a focus on economic and technological innovation, quantitative market modeling, evolutionary game theory, and adaptive group evolution theory. His scholarly contributions have been published in leading international journals indexed by SCI and SSCI, including The International Journal of Research in Marketing, Quantum Probability and Infinite Dimensional Analysis, and Markov Processes and Related Fields.

At Oxford, Dr Wang taught courses in Quantitative Financial Models, Applied Probability Theory, and Actuarial Science. The Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute serves as an interdisciplinary research platform fostering collaboration across diverse academic fields. The Institute currently oversees seven research groups, addressing key global challenges: 1) Mo Yan International Writing Centre;  2)Restorative Justice; 3)AI, Society, and Ethics; 4) Baptist Cultural Heritage; 5) Internationalization of Higher Education; 6) Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

In addition to his research and teaching, Dr Wang spearheaded the establishment of the annual UK-China University Presidents' Roundtable Dialogue, stimulating academic exchange between British Russell Group universities and China’s leading 985-level institutions. His efforts contribute to the advancement of student welfare support networks and the development of theory and practices to teaching and learning in Higher Education.

Selected Publications.

• With Lynn Robson, Hua Sun, Fang Wang, Blended Learning: New Prospects for International Higher Education (IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ( Volume: 40, Issue: 2, June 2021)
• With R. Foucart and C. Wang, 'Innovations and Technological Comebacks', International Journal of Research in Marketing (2018)
• With A. Etheridge and F. Yu, 'Conditioning the logistic branching process on non-extinction', Theoretical Population Biology (forthcoming)
• With M. Savov, 'Fluctuations of a locally regulated population model and generalized Langevin equations', Quantum Probability and Infinite Dimensional Analysis (2015)
• With A. Bovier, 'Trait substitution tree on two time scales analysis', Markov Process and Related Fields 19.1 (2013)
• With W. Hong, 'Alternative proof for the recurrence and transience of random walks in random environment with bounded jumps', Acta Mathematica Scientia 30A (2009), pp. 289-96

Books:

• With Jeremy Pitt, Robert Walker, ‘Technology, Society and Ethics’ Paperback, Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute– 27 July 2021
• With Robert Walker, George Leeson, Zhao Qiuyan, ‘Modernisation of Education and Social Governance’ Paperback, Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute, – 24 July 2020