At the age of 18, she joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, where she worked alongside Dimitri Bertsekas.
[1] Her early work used reinforcement to minimize risk in financial portfolios and help hospitals identify potential complications.
[4] In 2020, Wang joined the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, a consortium of researchers who seek to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in society.
[5] She used system identification and adaptive control to develop strategies to understand the health status of students, and to deploy algorithms that recommend interventions to decision makers.
[5] In 2024, she was awarded a United States Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program to develop AI and reinforcement learning for biological systems.