{"id":40802298747,"date":"2026-10-16T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802298747"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:11:21","slug":"wang-named-editor-in-chief-of-ieee-systems-man-and-cybernetics-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wang-named-editor-in-chief-of-ieee-systems-man-and-cybernetics-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jiacun Wang, Ph.D., professor of computer science and software engineering at Monmouth University, has been named editor-in-chief of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieeesmc.org\/publications\/ieee-systems-man-and-cybernetics-letters-smc-l\/\">IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Letters<\/a> (L-SMC), a peer-reviewed journal of the world\u2019s largest technical professional organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang, who directs the University\u2019s graduate programs in computer science and data science, will begin a three-year term in January 2027. He has led the journal on an interim basis since March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am honored to take on this role and grateful for the opportunity to serve the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society,&#8221; Wang said. &#8220;I am also grateful to my colleagues and students at Monmouth University for their continued support and for providing an environment that encourages research and collaboration. I look forward to receiving submissions from our faculty and students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L-SMC publishes brief, high-impact papers on emerging ideas and new applications, with an emphasis on getting timely findings to researchers quickly. Its scope spans systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, computational social systems, and cybernetics, including work on systems modeling and simulation, human factors engineering, control, and optimization. The journal aims to advance the next generation of human-machine intelligence systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appointment builds on about two decades of involvement with the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, where Wang has served as a conference organizer, journal editor, and associate vice president for finance, among other roles. He has been a voting member of the Board of Governors since January 2024, has been an IEEE senior member since 2000, and has written four books and more than 200 papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang\u2019s research spans artificial intelligence, software engineering, formal methods, discrete event systems, and service computing. His work applying AI to real-world challenges in health care and emergency management, supported by multiple IEEE grants, earned him a Monmouth University Distinguished Scholar Award in 2025, one of three inaugural co-recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A member of the Monmouth faculty since 2004, Wang has made student involvement a hallmark of his research, supervising master\u2019s theses, hiring graduate research assistants, and advising summer research projects. In 2024, he traveled with a computer science senior to Kuching, Malaysia, where she presented IEEE-funded humanoid robot research at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IEEE has more than 533,000 members in over 190 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiacun Wang, Ph.D., professor of computer science and software engineering at Monmouth University, has been named editor-in-chief of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Letters (L-SMC), a peer-reviewed journal of the world\u2019s largest technical professional organization. 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