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Shiang-Yu Wang is a prominent observational astronomer and instrumentation specialist whose career has centered on the detection and characterization of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) through stellar occultation surveys. His most significant contributions lie in the design, development, and deployment of robotic telescope systems capable of monitoring thousands of stars simultaneously at high frame rates to capture the fleeting signatures of distant solar system bodies passing in front of background stars. Wang played a key role in the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS), a pioneering four-telescope robotic observatory described in his most-cited work (30 citations), which also demonstrated versatility for studying early gamma-ray burst optical afterglows. He subsequently advanced this work through the next-generation TAOS II program at San Pedro Mártir Observatory in Mexico, contributing multiple foundational papers on the specialized high-speed, wide-field CMOS camera systems essential to the project's success. His instrumentation papers, accumulating citations across the field, reflect sustained influence on how astronomers engineer large-area, back-thinned sensors optimized for high-cadence photometry. Wang's body of work has meaningfully shaped humanity's ability to probe the size distribution of the outer solar system, offering crucial insights into the primordial architecture of planetary formation.