Prior to joining UCF, Dr. Wu was a Senior Research Associate in the Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He received his B.S. from Hunan University, M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests focus on data-driven smart manufacturing, particularly on novel methodologies for prognostics and health management using cloud-based parallel machine learning. Dr. Wu has served as a guest managing editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems and the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing.