Prof. Wang holds a four-year BSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (now Wuhan University) and a PhD in Numerical Analysis from Trinity College, University of Dublin (TCD). He worked for three years at Tritech Ltd, a Dublin-based software development company, serving as both senior software engineer and technical director. In 1992, he moved to Australia for a joint appointment with the School of Mathematics and the School of Engineering at the University of New South Wales. From early 1995 to June 1999, he was a teaching and research academic in the then School of Mathematics and Statistics at Curtin University of Technology. In 1999, he joined The University of Western Australia (UWA), where he held roles as lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor in UWA’s School of Mathematics and Statistics. He also served as Deputy Head of the School. Since July 2014, he has been Professor of Mathematics at Curtin University, where he was Head of Curtin's Mathematics and Statistics from 2014 to 2019.