He completed his doctorate in mathematics, while also earning a master's degree in computer science at Michigan State University in 1997. He worked as a full-time software engineer in industry for almost ten years before joining Arizona State University. Dr. Wang’s research interests include applied mathematics, data science, differential equations, online social networks. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and a book entitled, “Modeling Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks with Partial Differential Equations?, Springer, 2020. Recently he developed and taught a course, Mathematical Methods in Data Science, at Arizona State University.