He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Station Q, as well as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1989 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from UC San Diego under the supervision of Michael Freedman.

[2][3][4] In 2005, Wang moved to Santa Barbara to serve as a lead scientist in the newly founded research institute Microsoft Station Q.

[1] From 2013 to 2020 Wang served as a distinguished visiting research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics as well.

[22][23][24] Wang has also worked more specifically on the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect[25][26][27] and anyonic chains.