Wenwu Zhu is Principal Architect at Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center, China R&D Group. Prior to this current post, he was Director and Chief Scientist of Intel Communication Technology Lab China from September 2004 to March 2008. He was Research Manager of Wireless and Networking Group and Research Area Manager of Wireless and Systems at Microsoft Research Asia from 1999 to August 2004. He previously worked at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff from 1996 to1999. He has published over 200 refereed papers in the areas of wireless/Internet multimedia delivery, mobility, and wireless communications and networking. He participated in the IETF standard ROHC WG on robust TCP/IP header compression over wireless links and IEEE standard 16m WG on WiMAX. He is co-inventor of over 20 pending patents.

Dr. Zhu has been served on various editorial boards of IEEE journals such as Guest Editors for the Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE JSAC, Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2001 from IEEE CAS society, and the Best paper award from Multimedia TC in 2004 in IEEE Communications Society for his paper published on IEEE JSAC. Dr Zhu currently serves as the Chairman of Beijing Section Chapter of IEEE Circuits and System Society, and the Chairman of Visual Signal Processing and Communication TC of IEEE Circuits and System Society. He currently also serves on the Steering Committee Board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.