He served as a visiting scholar in University of California, San Diego from 2008 to 2009. Famous for his teaching, Wang is selected as "My Favorite Teacher" of Shandong University. Besides, he presides over three courses at the national level, among which “Everyone Loves Designing” and “Design a Creative Life” were selected as national-level online quality courses in 2017 and 2018 respectively, while “History of Industrial Design” was selected as national first-class courses combining online and offline modes. In addition, Professor Wang has won the National Teaching Achievement Award and three Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards.

Research direction: theory and method of industrial design, human-computer interaction design, and perceptual engineering.