• Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
• M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999.

Biography 

 

Professor Wu completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her M.S. degree from IU Bloomington in December 1999 and an M.S./B.S. degree from Peking University, China. Dr. Wu completed research internships at IBM Almaden Research Center as well as Microsoft Research in 2002 and 2003. Prof. Wu joined IU in 2004, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, of the School of Informatics.

Prof. Wu is one of the founders of the TIMBER project under development at the University of Michigan, a high performance native XML database system capable of operating at large scale, through use of a carefully designed tree algebra and judicious use of novel access methods and optimizations techniques. Her research in the Timber project focused on XML data storage, query processing and optimization, especially cost-based query optimization.

Prof. Wu's recent research at Indiana University involves algebra for XML queries, normalization, indexing and the security of XML data repositories. She is leading the research project on Access Control for XML (ACCESS) at Indiana University, focusing on developing a framework for flexible access constraint specification, representation and efficient enforcement. Prof. Wu is also involved in research related to data integration, data mining, and knowledge discovery. Prof. Wu is also involved in research related to data integration, data mining, and knowledge discovery.