He received his doctorate from the Scripps Research Institute in 2005 under the guidance of Professor K. Barry Sharpless. From September 2004 to early 2005, he was a visiting student in the laboratory of Professor Craig J. Hawker at IBM Almaden Research Center and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From August 2005 to September 2008, Dr. Wu was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi at the University of California, Berkeley. Joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in October 2008, Dr. Wu is developing a research program at the interface of chemistry and biology, with a focus on the invention of new tools for studying protein glycosylation, especially those related to human disease.