Prof. Wang’s research interests include wireless communications, visible light communications, digital broadcasting and AI-empowered wireless communications. He is internationally well-known for a large number of high-quality original granted patents and publications in high-impact journals. He holds 60 U.S. patents (17 of them as the first inventor and 38 of them as the second inventor) and 9 granted European patents (6 of them as the first inventor). Several granted U.S. patents have been accepted by a plurality of international standards (including 5G, LTE/LTE-A, WiFi, IEEE802.11n, DVB-T2, IEEE802.15.3c, ECMA387, etc.). Besides that, he authored/co-authored five books, two of which have been selected by IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. Prof. Wang has published 300+ peer-reviewed papers, 17 of which have been selected as Clarivate Analytics ESI highly cited papers. He has 23000+ Google citations and his H-index is 70.

Prof. Wang was the recipient of 2020 IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize (Best Paper Award of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications), 2018 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2016 National Award for Science and Technology Progress (First Prize), 2016 IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award (Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting), 2016 IET Premium Award, and several Best Paper Awards from renowned international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and an Associate Editor for the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He was previously an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2011 to 2015, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters from 2013 to 2016, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal from 2019 to 2023, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology from 2019 to 2023. He was also Optical Wireless and Petahertz Communications Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE ICCC2024, Signal Processing for Optical Wireless Communications Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE GlobalSIP2015, Optical Wireless Communications Symposium Co-Chair of OECC2015 and Wireless Communications Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE ICC2013.