In Wang's third year of high school, the French Ministry of Education held a recruiting campaign in China for students who excelled in mathematics.

While Wang did not score particularly well on the recruitment exam, she was the only student to answer her questionnaire in French rather than English.This caught the attention of the interviewers and she was eventually accepted into the programme.

[1] After classes prépas at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, Wang entered the École normale supérieure (Paris) in 2011.

[2] She completed a Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2019 with the dissertation On the Loewner energy of simple planar curves supervised by Wendelin Werner.

[5] Wang was a 2022 recipient of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, given "for innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves".