Chih-Yu Wang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and communication engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He has been a visiting student in University of Maryland, College Park in 2011. He joined Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan in 2014. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow / Associate Professor in Research Center for Information Technology Innovation. His research interests include game theory, wireless communications, social networks, and data science.

He was a recipient of the K. T. Li Young Researcher Award (李國鼎青年研究獎) from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter and The Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2019, Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project for Excellent Young Scholars (科技部優秀年輕學者計畫) in 2019. His work was featured in 2018 and 2019 Significant Research Achievements of Academia Sinica.