Lucas Wang is a third-year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, co-mentored by Dr. Sage Chen and Dr. Katharina Schultebraucks.

Prior to attending NYU, they completed dual Bachelor's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Rochester, along with a minor in Psychology. They also completed a Master's in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, focusing on Neural Engineering, and were awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award.

During their PhD, Lucas aims to use their engineering background to investigate psychiatric disorders and neural dysfunctions in computational psychiatry.