Weili (Lily) Wu is a Chinese and American computer scientist, the director of the Data Communication and Data Management Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she is a professor of computer science. The topics of her research include wireless sensor networks, influence maximization and rumor spreading in social networks, and the analysis of geospatial data.
Wu was a student at Liaoning Technical University, where she received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1989, and then became a China Coal Research Academic in the Chinese Academy of Mine Science and Technology from 1989 to 1993. [1] [2]
Next, she moved to the US, started her graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, and earned a master's degree in economics there. [1] After shifting to computer science at the University of Minnesota, she received a master's degree in 1997 and completed her Ph.D. in 2002. [2] Her dissertation, Modeling spatial dependencies for data mining, was supervised by Shashi Shekhar. [3]
Wu joined the University of Texas at Dallas as an assistant professor of computer science in 2002. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and to full professor in 2013. [1]
Wu was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to study of data communication and processing in wireless sensor networks". [4]
Wu is married to Ding-Zhu Du, also a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas. They met at the University of Minnesota, when Wu was a student there and Du was a professor. [5]
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