Qingfang Wang is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. Her research area lies broadly in immigration, labor market, and development. Wang is particularly interested in how place—both work site and residential location—interacts with race, immigration status, and gender in shaping labor market experiences and social-economic well-being. Her work has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation, HUD, and other agencies. Her recent work includes research on immigrant, ethnic and female entrepreneurship, and transnational migration of the highly skilled, especially in the higher education sector. Wang has a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, an M.S. from the Central University of Finance and Economics, and a B.S. from the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics.