Dr. Wang teaches classes at the undergraduate and graduate level on topics including; transportation engineering, transportation system planning and analysis, traffic flow theory and control, and traffic simulation.

Dr. Haizhong Wang conducts research in the areas of traffic flow modeling and simulation from both deterministic and stochastic perspectives, transportation system planning and travel behavior analysis, traffic system control and optimization, intelligent transportation system in particular the impacts of connected and autonomous vehicle on traffic operation and infrastructure management, emergency evacuation and disaster response in particular the evacuee decision-making behavior under emergent scenarios through agent-based modeling and simulation, and post-disaster transportation network resiliency and recovery problems.