Dr. Wu is a recipient of the UCF Medal of Societal Impact (2024), Optica/IS&T Edwin H. Land medal (2022), SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer award (2022), OSA (now Optica) Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (2014), SID Slottow-Owaki Prize (2011), OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award (2010), SPIE G. G. Stokes Award (2008), and SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2008). He has co-authored 7 books, 690 journal papers and 330 conference papers, and obtained 100 issued US patents. His publications have accumulated over 54,000 citations, with an h-index of 112.
Dr. Wu is an Academician of Academia Sinica (2022), a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012), a member of Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida, and one of the first six inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID and SPIE. In the past, he served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, OSA Publications Council Chair and OSA Board of Directors, and SID Honors and Awards committee chair.