Dr. Wang received his BS summa cum laude in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Wang's Lab does research in bioinformatics, computational mass spectrometry, and analytical chemistry, and is interested in how computational approaches in analyzing mass spectrometry data can lend insight into the chemical world around us. Dr. Wang’s work has created computational tools that enable global visualization of unknown chemistry that makes it possible to rapidly discover new compounds. These approaches have further been scaled to enable repository scale analysis across all public metabolomics and natural products data. Dr. Wang has led the development of computational tools and infrastructure that resulted in the GNPS/GNPS2 ecosystem – a web analysis and knowledge curation infrastructure that became the de facto standard tool for the natural products, metabolomics, and chemical ecology research communities.