He earned his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2006, advised by David Chen. After postdoctoral studies with Edward Yeung at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, DOE, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State as Assistant Professor in 2008 and was appointed faculty scientist at Ames Laboratory. Since 2015 Dr. Fang has held in his current position at GSU. His development of the Five-Dimensional Single Particle Tracking technique was recognized by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) with the 2015 Innovation Award.