Wang-Q Lim received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the Washington University, St. Louis, USA, in 2006. Before joinning the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications-Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), he held postdoctoral positions at Lehigh University (2006-2008), University of Osnabrück (2009-2011) and TU Berlin (2011-2015).

He is one of the main contributors of shearlets, a multiscale framework which allows to efficiently encode anisotropic features in multivariate problem classes. Based on this approach, he has been working on various applications including image denoising, interpolation, inpainting, separation and medical imaging.

Currently, he is a member of the Image and Video Coding group and his research interests are mainly in applied harmonic analysis, image/video processing, compressed sensing, approximation theory and numerical analysis.