Xiaoyu Wu earned his B.S. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering in July 1999, and a M.S. degree from the Department of Biological Sciences and Technology at Tsinghua University .  His M.S. research involved the stability of Endostatin, an angiogenesis protein in different conditions. He joined Dr. Narsimhan's group in August of 2004 to pursue a Ph.D. degree and is working on the project of determining the structure properties of selected proteins on different interfaces.