Wen-Xu Wang's research focus is on complex systems and nonlinear dynamics, mainly in the field of complex networks, biological physics, human behaviors and neural science. Recently, his group has developed a general framework to quantify the exact controllability of complex networks, and a general paradigm based on compressive sensing to reconstruct complex networks and nonlinear dynamics from extremely short time series. The researches have been published in Nat. Commun., PNAS, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. X, Phys. Rep. J. R. Soc. Interface, Sci. Rep., Phys. Rev. E and EPL, etc.. He has published over 120 papers in refereed journals. His current H-index is 35. He serves as the editoral board member of Sci. Rep., R. Soc. Open Science, and etc., and is also the referee of more than 30 research journals, including Nature Communications, Phys. Rev. Lett., J.Theo.Bio and IEEE Trans.Neural Networks, and etc.