Wu was a student of computer science and technology at
Tsinghua University, where she received a bachelor's degree in 2000 and a master's degree in 2002. After working in industry in
Singapore, she went to the
University of Toronto in Canada for doctoral study in electrical and computer engineering, and completed her Ph.D. in 2008. Her doctoral dissertation,
Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Streaming: Modeling, Measurements, and Optimizing Solutions, was supervised by
Baochun Li. She joined the University of Hong Kong Department of Computer Science in 2008, and is now a full professor there. ==Recognition==