Wang Fan-sen Chinese: 王汎森; born 25 October 1958) is a Taiwanese historian who is the current president of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System since 2022.

[1] He began working for the Institute of History and Philology [zh] (IHP) at Academia Sinica as an assistant research fellow in 1985,[2] then completed a doctorate within Princeton University's Department of East Asian Studies in 1992.

On 1 June of the same year, Wang succeeded Liu Ts'ui-jung as head of the Taiwan e-learning and Digital Archives Program.

[5] In April 2016, several weeks before President of the Republic of China Ma Ying-jeou was to complete his second consecutive term, Wang announced that the Academia Sinica had settled on three candidates for its next leader.

[11][12] After Tsai named James C. Liao to the Academia Sinica's highest-ranking position, Wang's acting tenure came to an end.