His research focused on human genetics and genomics, especially methods development and application of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing techniques. Dr. Wang had a Bachelor’s degree at Peking University in China, a master’s degree at Mayo Clinic and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He had postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, working on genomic analysis of multiple human diseases. Dr. Wang has published over 100 scientific manuscripts, with over 10,000 citations. He developed PennCNV, one of the most widely used software tools to detect copy number variations from high-density SNP arrays, as well as ANNOVAR, one of the most widely used software tools for functional annotation of genetic variants from high-throughput sequencing data.