[1] She is known for her research in computer vision and computational geometry, and especially for her highly cited publications on k-means clustering[KM] and nearest neighbor search.
[NN] Other topics in her research include embeddings of tree-structured parallel systems into the hypercube internetwork topology[TH] and voxel-based object representations.
[DS] Wu did her undergraduate studies at Villanova University, majoring in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Cornell University.
[1] She completed her studies with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978.
Her dissertation, Cellular Graph Automata, was supervised by Azriel Rosenfeld.