Di Wu is currently a PhD candidate in Department of ECE at UW–Madison, advised by professor Joshua San Miguel. His research interest lies in the field of emerging computer architecture, including unary computing, approximate computing, reconfigurable computing and quantum computing. His research was featured in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist in 2019 and awarded IEEE Micro Top Pick in 2021.

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He received bachelor and master degrees in 2012 and 2015 from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Before starting PhD in 2017, he was a digital circuit engineer in HiSilicon. During PhD study, he did internships related to deep learning hardware software co-design in Meta and Cerebras Systems.