Wu, a graduate of the electrical engineering department at Tsinghua in Beijing, came to California in 1989 intending to complete a Master's degree and go straight to work on a PhD. But he had a job offer in hand when he finished his Master's, and, thinking that it was time he got himself "established" in the US, he abandoned the PhD.
中國清華大學電子工程系畢業的吳方，1989 年來到加州，本來計畫由碩士直攻博士，但碩士一拿到就有公司想聘請他，在「先把身份搞定了」的想法下，打消了讀博士的念頭。