She completed her undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University (2006, B.S. in Psychology, B.S. in History and Anthropology), Masters at University College London (2007), Ph.D. at the University of London (2011), and Diploma in Art at Middlesex University (2011). Prior to her position at UC Riverside, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester. Dr. Wu was also recently honored by a Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science.