Yingcai Wu is a Professor at the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. He now serves as a deputy dean of the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University and a deputy director of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010. Prior to his current role, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis (2010-2012), a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (2012-2015), and a ZJU100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University (2015-2020).

His research delves into sports science, social media analysis, and urban computing. He has a publication record with over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and conferences such as IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG, and ACM SIGCHI. His research excellence is underscored by five Honorable Mention Awards from IEEE VIS and two from IEEE Pacific Visualization. He plays an active role in the academic community, currently serving on the Area Curation Committee for IEEE VIS and Editorial Board of IEEE Transactionns on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and has held significant positions such as area paper co-chair for IEEE VIS 2022-2023 and paper co-chair for IEEE Pacific Visualization 2017.