Wu Yueliang, a theoretical physicist, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences, and Dean of the School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences of Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, is currently the Academic Vice President of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific of UNESCO, and Chief Scientist of the Chinese Space-borne Gravitational Wave Detection Program "Taiji". His research interests include particle physics, quantum field theory, symmetry principle and quantum cosmic physics.

In 1987, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1987 to 1996, he engaged in theoretical research on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory at the Germany-based Technical University of Dortmund and University of Mainz, and the US-based Carnegie Mellon University and The Ohio State University. He once served as Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. He used to be Chief Scientist of the 973 Program of "Theoretical Research and Experimental Pre-research on Dark Matter and Dark Energy" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and an academic leader of the program of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Innovative Group Project on “Deep Structure of Matter and Early Evolution of the Universe”. He once served as Chief Scientist of the national strategic pilot project (category A) "Taiji Program".

In 1996, he won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 1997, he was selected as a candidate for the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project" of the Ministry of Personnel (currently known as the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China). In 1998, he received special government allowances from the State Council. In 2003, he was awarded the Achievement Award of Returned Overseas Chinese Students by the Organization Department, Publicity Department, and United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, as well as the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Science and Technology. He has developed the loop regularization method of quantum field theory to solve the infinite divergence difficulty, and created gravitational quantum field theory and super-unified field theory. His research related to charge-parity symmetry destruction and quark-lepton flavor physics won the second prize of the State Natural Science Award in 2005.