Yi Wu is an Assistant Professor in the theory group at the computer science department of Purdue University. Previously, he was a postdoc at IBM Almaden Research and before that he graduated from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Wu's PhD thesis, The Approximability of Learning and Constraint Satisfaction Problems, received the CMU SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. Wu obtained his BA from the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University in China.