Employment History:

2007-pres. Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles.

2002-2007. Associate Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles.

1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Long Island University, Brooksville, New York.

1991-1997 Frick Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Academic Degrees:

1990 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Sept. 1984 Master of Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Jan. 1981 Bachelor of Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

Major Research Grants:

2008–2011 Chinese National Natural Science Foundation: “Mammalian Evolution in Response to Major Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Cenozoic of China” ¥1,650,000, No. 40730210, PI, Deng Tao; CO-PI: X. Wang and others.

2008-2009 National Geographic Society, “Hemphillian-Blancan Aged Fossil Faunas from Central Mexico and Implications of the Great American Biotic Interchange” $20,150 (Grant # 8273-07), PI, Ó. Carranza-Castañeda; Co-PI: X. Wang and others.

2008-2009 National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: The impact of late Cenozoic Himalayan-Tibetan uplift on C4 plant expansion, climate and mammalian evolution in northern China” $25,000 (EAR-0716507), PI, Y. Wang; Co-PI: X. Wang and others.

2007-2009 Major Research Direction Project of the Knowledge Innovation Program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Mammalian Evolution and Biochronologic Frameworks in the Neogene of North China” ¥2,000,000 (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-120), PI, T. Deng; Co-PI: X. Wang and others.

2005-2008 National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoenvironments of the Richest, Endemic-Dominated Vertebrate Assemblage from the Cenozoic of Qaidam Basin, Northern Tibetan Plateau, China," $250,000, EAR-0446699, PI, X. Wang.

2005-2007 Outstanding Overseas Scholars Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, "Evolution of Cenozoic Mammals in Tibetan Plateau and Its Surrounding Regions," 400,000 RMB, No. 2004-2-4. PI, Xiaoming Wang.

2004-2006 Chinese National Natural Science Foundation: "Uplift of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and the formation of large-scale geomorphology" 1,200,000 RMB, No. 40334038, PI, Fang Xiaomin; CO-PI: X. Wang and others.

2003-2006 Chinese National Natural Science Foundation: "The Evolution of the Late Cenozoic Mammalian Faunas in the Linxia Basin and the Variation of the Climatic and Environmental Background," 1,200,000 RMB, No. 40232023, PI, Deng Tao; CO-PI: X. Wang and others.

2002-2004 Outstanding Overseas Young Scholars Award, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, "Mammals of Tibetan Plateau," 400,000 RMB, KA 202201 No. 40128004. PI, Xiaoming Wang.

2000-2003 Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Late Cenozoic Mammals in Hezheng Basin, Gansu Province and the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau." 2,500,000 RMB, KZCX2-103. PI: Deng Tao; CO-PI: X. Wang and others.

2000-2002 National Geographic Society: "Mid-Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology of Tsaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China." $38,000, NGS 6771-00. PI: X. Wang.

1997-2000 National Science Foundation: "Phylogenetic Systematics of North American Fossil Caninae: Zoogeographic and Evolutionary Implications." $125,000, DEB-9707555. PI: R. H. Tedford; CO-PI: X. Wang.

1997-1998 National Geographic Society: "Mid-Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology of Tsaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China." $20,544, NGS 6004-97. PI: X. Wang.

1995-1998 National Science Foundation: "Phylogenetic Systematics, Biochronology, and Evolution of Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae)." $120,000, DEB-9420004. PI: X. Wang; CO-PI: R. H. Tedford.

1995-1996 National Geographic Society: "Mid-Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology of Central Inner Mongolia, China." $20,575, NGS 5527-95. PI: X. Wang.

Associates, Adjuncts, Awards:

2005-pres International Advisory Board, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2004-pres Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution, University California at Los Angeles.

2003-pres Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California.

2002-2006 Visiting Professor, National Laboratory of Western Environments, Lanzhou University, Gansu Province.

2001 Outstanding Overseas Young Scholars Award, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation.

1997-pres Research Associate, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

1993-pres Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

1991-1997 Child Frick Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Other Professional Activities:

2004-pres Chair, Morris Skinner Award Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

2002-2004 Member, Morris Skinner Award Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

2000-2004 International Editor, News Bulletin of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

1993 Guest Editor, Quaternary Sciences.

Graduate Students Advised:

Natalia Wideman (Ph.D. candidate), University of California at Los Angeles

Julie A. Meachen (Ph.D. candidate), University of California at Los Angeles

Joshua X. Samuels (Ph.D. candidate), University of California at Los Angeles

Graham J. Slater (Ph.D. candidate), University of California at Los Angeles

Jim Dines (Ph.D. candidate), University of Southern California

Xuecong Liu (Ph.D. candidate), University of Southern California

Jingmai O’Connor (Ph. D. candidate), University of Southern California

Jack Tseng (Ph.D. candidate), University of Southern California

Max Plikus (Ph.D.), University of Southern California

Qiang Li (Ph.D.), Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

Tom Rothwell (Ph.D.), Columbia University

Longin Kaczmarsky (M.Sc.), Silliman University Marine Laboratory, Philippines

Jack Verga (M.Sc.), Long Island University

Maki Komatsubara, Long Island University

Sheila Delijani (M.Sc.), Long Island University

Publications:

See and download from: http://www.nhm.org/expeditions/rrc/wang/publications.html