He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from New York University (2009). After a postdoctoral training at Princeton University exploring the novel functions of noncoding RNAs, he joined the faculty of Rensselaer in 2014. Dr. Wang's Nucleic Acids Programming Lab at RPI is currently focused on the design and synthesis of DNA/RNA aptamers, functional DNA-based nanostructures and nanodevices, and on the exploration of their uses in energy harvesting, basic biology, diagnostics in low-resource environment, and therapeutics.