He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles, and M.S. and B.S. from Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Stony Brook University, he was an assistant professor at Emory University. He was a research scientist at Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, New Jersey) before joining Emory University. Dr. Wang’s research interest includes big data management and analytics for complex big data at multiple dimensions. His research on biomedical informatics includes pathology imaging informatics, big spatial data driven public health studies such as drug abuse, and clinical natural language processing.