She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. Her general research interests are in machine learning, data mining, and their application in computational criminology, healthcare, marketing, etc. Her research on crime data mining is the second place winner in "Doing Good with Good OR” at INFORMS 2015, and her algorithm has been implemented by the New York Police Department. Her work on crime data mining has been reported in multiple media including Wikipedia and wired.com. Dr. Wang has served as program committee or reviewer for several conferences and journals, including NIPS, IJCAI, Management Sciences Journal, Decision Sciences Journal, Information System Research Journal, etc.