中國3D科技創新產業聯盟副理事長 。任職於中國科學院自動化研究所模式識別國家重點實驗室(NLPR)、中國-歐洲信息，自動化與應用數學聯合實驗室(LIAMA)。目前擔任多個國際刊物的評審專家和國際程序委員會成員等學術任職，擔任過ICCV/ CVPR/ ACCV國際程序委員會委員、程序主席秘書、以及北京市科學技術委員會項目評審專家、國家自然科學基金評審專家、國家科技計劃高新領域評審專家。
主要研究領域包括3D智能數字化打印、計算機三維視覺、視覺形狀感知分析與處理、視頻圖像處理、計算機交互圖形學等。主持和參與國家自然科學基金（兩項，其中因取得突出研究進展獲首批國家青年科學基金-面上項目連續資助項目）、國家高技術研究計劃863項目（四項）、中國博士後科學基金（壹等）、北京市自然科學基金、南京市科技領軍人才計劃等多項國家重大科研課題。在計算機視覺/計算機圖形學領域的IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics、IEEE Transactions on IP、IEEE Transactions on CSVT、IEEE Transactions on ITS、ICCV、CVPR等國際權威期刊/會議上發表學術論文30余篇，相關技術申請國際/國家發明專利6項。著有《3D打印：三維智能數字化創造》（3D Printing: Three-Dimensional Creation via Intelligent Digitization）壹書。研究成果應用到國產3D影視動漫制作當中，如國產三維動畫電影《麋鹿王》中的三維形狀漸變，該動畫片獲得第13 屆中國電影華表獎優秀動畫片獎、第二十七屆中國電影金雞獎最佳美術片提名獎。
作為我國3D智能數字化打印領域的前沿領軍人物，受《中國科學報》、《光明日報》 、《中國自動化學會通訊》邀請撰寫長篇技術評論並連載在最新版面上，標題分別為：《3D數字化與3D打印：用“虛擬”再造“現實”》、《3D數字化與3D打印：轉向“中國智造”的產業機遇》、《智能數字化與3D打印：“中國智造”推動“全球第三次工業革命”》、《3D打印：智能數字化》 。先後主持和參與基於隨機回歸森林與多源數據融合的高精度三維動態形狀獲取、流形調和分析的三維形狀匹配與檢索、立體視覺方法的三維運動捕捉系統研究及其應用、面向復雜非規則多運動對象的大規模全景動態光場采集與再現系統、虛實融合協同工作的集成環境和關鍵技術的科研工作，相關成果被CCTV新聞聯播、中國科技網 、CETV中國教育電視臺等報道。 [專著]：
* 吳懷宇，《3D打印：三維智能數字化創造》 ，電子工業出版社（全彩印刷），2014.1（第1版）、2015.1（第2版）
BOOK：Huai-Yu Wu, 3D Printing: Three-Dimensional Creation via Intelligent Digitization, PHEI Press, 2014.1（First Version）、2015.1 (Second Version)
[論文]：
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Hongbin Zha, Qing Yang, Songde MA. Partwise Cross-Parameterization via Nonregular Convex Hull Domains. IEEE Transactions On Visualization And Computer Graphics (TVCG), Volume: 17 , Issue: 10, 1531-1544, 2011. SCI Indexed
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Qing Yang, Songde MA. Consistent Correspondence between Arbitrary Manifold Surfaces. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Hongbin Zha. Robust Consistent Correspondence Between 3D Non-Rigid Shapes Based On 'Dual Shape-DNA'. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain, 6-13 November, 2011.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Hongbin Zha, Tao Luo, Xu-Lei Wang, Songde MA. Global and Local Isometry-Invariant Descriptor for 3D Shape Comparison and Partial Matching. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitionn (CVPR 2010), pp.438-445, San Francisco, California, June 13-18, 2010.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Hongbin Zha, Songde MA. Model Transduction for Triangle Meshes. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 25(3): 584-595, May 2010. SCI Indexed
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Kun Zeng, Qing Yang, Songde MA. An Efficient Skeleton-Free Pose Retargetting Method for Triangular Meshes. Journal of Electronics ,Vol. no. 4, pp. 659-664, 2008. SCI Indexed
* Lingfeng Wang, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Manifold Regularized Local Sparse Representation for Face Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2014. SCI Indexed
* Lingfeng Wang, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Fast Image Upsampling via the Displacement Field. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2014. SCI Indexed
* Lingfeng Wang, Hongping Yan, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Forward-Backward Mean-shift for Visual Tracking with Local Background Weighted Histogram. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2013, (accepted). SCI Indexed
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Qing Yang, Hong-Xia Wang, Songde MA. Model Transduction with Mean-value Shape Representation. Computer Graphics International (CGI 2008), Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Jia Pan, Qing Yang, Songde MA. A Sketch-based Interactive Framework for Real-time Mesh Segmentation. Computer Graphics International (CGI 2007), Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil, 2007.
* Jia Pan, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Qing Yang. A Novel Scheme for Efficient Cross-parameterization. Computer Graphics International (CGI 2007), Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil, 2007.
* LingFeng Wang, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Adaptive eLBP for Background Subtraction. The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010), Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010.
* LingFeng Wang, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Mean-shift Object Tracking with a Novel Back-Projection Calculation Method. The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009), Xi’ an, China, 2009. (Oral: acceptance rate: 5.22%)
* Tao Luo, Huai-Yu Wu, Hongbin Zha. Crease Detection on Noisy Meshes via Probabilistic Scale Selection. The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009), Xi’ an, China, 2009. (Poster: acceptance rate: 25.22%)
* Huai-Yu Wu, LingFeng Wang, Tao Luo, Hongbin Zha. 3D Shape Consistent Correspondence by Using Laplace-Beltrami Spectral Embeddings. ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI'2009 (The 8th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry), ACM Press, Yokohama, Japan, 14-15 Dec, 2009.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Tao Luo, LingFeng Wang, Xu-Lei Wang, Hongbin Zha. 3D Shape Retrieval by Using Manifold Harmonics Analysis with an Augmentedly Local Feature Representation. ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI'2009 (The 8th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry), ACM Press, Yokohama, Japan, 14-15 Dec, 2009.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Qing Yang, Jia Pan, Songde Ma. Mean-value Laplacian Coordinates for Triangular Meshes. IEEE International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV 2006), Sydney, Australia, pp.
* Huai-Yu Wu, Qing Yang, Chunhong Pan. An Efficient Skeleton-Free Mesh Deformation Method with Motion Capture Data. IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006), Bangalore, India, pp.465–469, 2006.
* Kun Zeng, Liang Lin, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan, Qing Yang. Image Sketching Using Low-, Mid-level Vision Cues. Journal of Computational Information Systems, 2008.
* Lingfeng Wang, Huai-Yu Wu, Chunhong Pan. Region-based Image Segmentation with Local Signed Difference Energy. Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 2013 (accepted). SCI Indexed
* Hong-Xia Wang, Chunhong Pan, Haifeng Gong, Huai-Yu Wu. Facial Image Composition Based on Active Appearance Model. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 2008.
* 吳懷宇. 3D智能數字化與3D打印：“中國智造”的新機遇. 《光明日報》,2013
* 吳懷宇. 3D數字化與3D打印： 用“虛擬”再造“現實”. 《中國科學報》技術評論專欄，第5777期，2013-4-10
* 吳懷宇. 3D數字化與3D打印：轉向“中國智造”的產業機遇. 《中國科學報》技術評論專欄，第5782期，2013-4-17
* 吳懷宇.智能數字化與3D打印：“中國智造”推動“全球第三次工業革命”.《中國自動化學會通訊》,2013 * 吳懷宇，潘春洪，陳艷琴，趙兩可. 基於增量主成分分析的特征與模型互匹配人臉跟蹤方法. 國際PCT發明專利: PCT/CN2013/078331, 2013.
* 吳懷宇，潘春洪，王舒旸、沙金正. 壹種基於單攝像頭與運動捕捉數據的人臉表情編輯方法. 國際PCT發明專利: PCT/CN2013, 2013.
* 吳懷宇、潘春洪、王瑩、李成華、汪淩峰. 基於點對應的3D形狀數據庫分析與局部檢索技術. 國家發明專利: IB147192, 2015.
* 吳懷宇、潘春洪、鄭薈. 壹種基於超體素圖割的視頻顯著物體分割方法. 國家發明專利: IB147153, 2014.
* 吳懷宇，潘春洪，楊青，馬頌德. 壹種直接傳遞三維模型姿態的方法. 國家發明專利: 200610078215.0, 2006.
* 潘春洪、王紅俠、吳懷宇. 壹種人臉圖像自動合成方法. 國家發明專利: 2008102467465, 2008. * Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): High-Quality 3D Dynamic Shape Capture Based on Random Regression Forests and Multi-Data Fusion,2013.01 - 2016.12 * Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): A Study of 3D Shape Match and Retrieval based on Manifold Harmonics Analysis, 2010.01 - 2012.12
* Principal Investigator, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (The First Class): Digital Geometry Processing for 3D Scanned Data based on the Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions, 2008-2010
* Principal Investigator, Beijing Natural Science Foundation: A Key Study on 3D Media Shape Retrieval, 2013.01 - 2015.06
* Main Investigator, National High Technology Program (China's 863 program): Large-scale panoramic dynamic light field collecting and relighting system for complex and irregular multiple moving objects, 2009.1-2010.12 * Main Investigator, National High Technology Program (China's 863 program): Individualized Transformation and Reuse Technology on Cartoon Material Library, 2005-2006
* Main Investigator, National High Technology Program (China's 863 program): The Integrated Environment and Key Technology based on Virtual and Real Fusion Cooperation, 2009.1-2010.12
* Main Investigator, National High Technology Program (China's 863 program): The research and applications of 3D Motion Capture System based on stereo vision methods, 2004.10-2005.10
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