Professor Wu is a Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University at the College of Computer Science. He is the vice-dean of college of Computer Science, and the Director of Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Zhejiang University, and Deputy Dean of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS).

He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D.degrees in computer science from Lanzhou University, University of Macau and Zhejiang University in 1996, 1999 and 2002 respectively. From October, 2009 to August 2010, Fei Wu was a visiting scholar at Prof. Bin Yu's group, University of California, Berkeley.

He is the Associate Editor for Multimedia System, the editorial members for Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. He has won various honors such as the Award of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2016).

His research interests mainly include Artificial Intelligence, multimedia analysis and retrieval and machine learning.