He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 2013. From 2013 to 2015, Wu was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Simons Research Fellow with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2015 to 2017, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. Wu researches quantum information and computation, quantum cryptography, quantum programming languages, mathematical optimization and theory of computation.