Yu Wu
Also known as 吴俣
Yu Wu is a researcher whose work spans speech models and large language models, and he heads the LLM alignment team at DeepSeek AI. He earned a B.S. and a Ph.D. at Beihang University and received national scholarships there in 2015 and 2018. At Microsoft Research Asia, he developed WavLM, a speech model that the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing published in July 2022. He joined DeepSeek AI in September 2023, where he contributes to DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. Nature published the DeepSeek-R1 paper in September 2025.
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- DeepSeek AI
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Timeline
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2015–2018
Studies at Beihang University
He receives a National Scholarship from Beihang University in 2015 and again in 2018. He earns a B.S. and a Ph.D. there.
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2017–2018
A Microsoft Research Asia fellowship
He receives the Microsoft Research Asia Ph.D. Fellowship in 2017. He also receives an AdeptMind scholarship in 2018.
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June 2019–March 2021
Joining Microsoft Research Asia
He joins Microsoft Research Asia's Natural Language Computing Group as a researcher in June 2019.
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March 2021–September 2023
Building the WavLM speech model
He becomes a senior researcher in the same group in March 2021 and develops WavLM, a speech model. The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing publishes WavLM in July 2022.
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Since 2023
Head of DeepSeek's LLM alignment team
He joins DeepSeek AI in September 2023 as a technical staff member and heads its LLM alignment team. He contributes to DeepSeek-V3, a mixture-of-experts language model, and to DeepSeek-R1, which Nature publishes in September 2025.
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