Professor Wu was born in Shanghai, China on Jan 30, 1957. He moved to Hong Kong while he was only ten months old, and stayed in that ex-British colony for the next fourteen years. While in Hong Kong he finished junior high school at St. Louis School. He immigrated to another ex-British colony (the U.S.) in 1971, where he finished his high school and then his undergraduate study at the City College of New York. He then went to Boston for his post graduate study at MIT. After obtaining his PhD degree he returned to the New York Metropolitan area and joined Hofstra University in 1983 and has remained there ever since.