Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies  at TTU. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and M.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech, and completed a 2-year postdoctoral training in Developmental Psychology at The Ohio State University.

Broadly speaking, she studies the development of individual differences in cognitive abilities and educational attainments in children and young adolescents, and parenting behaviors in adults. Her research incorporates genetic, physiological, and behavioral approaches, and examines how factors at these various levels interact with environmental context (e.g., socioeconomic backgrounds, chaotic household environments, and harsh parenting) to produce diverse developmental trajectories. She utilizes a variety of kinship designs (e.g., twin design, adoption design, and family design) and combines them with multi-wave longitudinal data and advanced statistical modeling to reveal the complex transactional processes in human development. Her current research examines how non-cognitive factors (e.g., emotion, motivation) affect individual's online cognitive performance and long-term achievement outcomes. The goal is to help improve  understanding on how emotion and cognition transact in educational settings.