| Wang Yaonan | |
| Native Name: | 王耀南 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Place: | Longling County, Yunnan, China |
| Fields: | Robot technology Intelligent control |
| Workplaces: | Hunan University |
| Alma Mater: | East China University of Technology Hunan University |
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Wang Yaonan (; born November 1957) is a Chinese scientist who is a professor at Hunan University and the current dean of its School of Robotics and College of Electrical and Information Engineering.[1]
Wang was born in November 1957 in Longling County, Yunnan. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he was a sent-down youth.[1] After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he was accepted to East China University of Technology, where he graduated in 1981.[2] He obtained his master's degree and doctor's degree from Hunan University in 1992 and 1995, respectively. After graduation, he taught at the university. He was a postdoctoral fellow at National University of Defense Technology between 1995 and 1997. He was a Humboldt scholar at the University of Bremen from 1998 to 2001.