WANG Tianran , born in 1943, Senior researcher, Doctorial tutor in Shenyang Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He mainly focues on research of industrial automation and robot. National expert with outstanding contributions (1988), National outstanding scientific and technical worker (1997), National outstanding technical personnel (2002), deputy to the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh National People's Congress (NPC), President of the Council of Liaoning Provincial Automation Association, and chairman of Liaoning Association for Science and Technology.