Cheng-Xiang Wang received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in communication and information systems from Shandong University, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2004.

He was a Research Assistant with the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, from 2000 to 2001, a Visiting Researcher with Siemens AG Mobile Phones, Munich, Germany, in 2004, and a Research Fellow with the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, from 2001 to 2005. He was with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., from 2005 to 2018, where he was promoted to a professor in 2011. He has been with Southeast University, Nanjing, China, as a professor since 2018, and he is now the Vice President. He is also a professor with Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. He has authored 4 books, 3 book chapters, and over 710 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including over 270 IEEE journal/magazine papers and 33 highly cited papers. He has also delivered 39 invited keynote speeches and 24 tutorials in international conferences. His current research interests include wireless channel measurements and modeling, 6G/B6G ubiquitous intelligent connectivity networks, and electromagnetic information theory.

Dr. Wang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), IEEE, IET and China Institute of Communications (CIC), an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2019 and 2020, and a Highly-Cited Researcher recognized by Clarivate Analytics in 2017-2020 and 2025. He was an Executive Editorial Committee Member of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2019 to 2025. He has served as an Editor for over ten international journals, including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, from 2007 to 2009, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, from 2011 to 2017, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, from 2015 to 2017. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIG DATA, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING. He has served as a TPC Chair and General Chair for more than 30 international conferences. He received the First-Class Natural Science Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2025. He received IEEE Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2024. He also received 20 Best Paper Awards from international conferences.