Hui-Ping Wang has volunteered as a principal at The American Chinese School of Greater Detroit and served as a director for the Troy High School booster club.

Additionally, Wang was the technical chair for the 2014 Sheet Metal Welding Conference organized by the American Welding Society and has coached the Middle School Science Olympiad.

Wang has also made significant contributions as an associate editor for the Journal of Materials Processing Technology.

She is recognized as a technical fellow in manufacturing systems research at General Motors, holding 66 intellectual property patents, 32 of which have been implemented in production.

From 2004 to 2007, she led GM's efforts in the Automotive Composite Consortium Crashworthiness Team.

Her leadership extends to a team of 20 professional researchers and manufacturing engineers who have transformed the laser welding process.

One of her notable inventions, the spatter-free laser spot welding method, earned the R&D 100 Award in 2016 and was first used in the production of the 2018 Buick Enclave and 2018 Chevrolet Traverse.

This innovation resulted in savings of $24 million for GM and created an opportunity for an $819 million increase in profit.

In recognition of her contributions, Wang has received many prestigious awards.

She was honored with GM's highest R&D innovation award, the McCuen Award, in 2007, and she has also won GM's most esteemed innovation accolade, the Boss Kettering Award, twice—in 2017 and again in 2019.

Additionally, she is an accomplished author, having published 98 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have garnered over 2,500 citations.