C. Thomas Wu received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. Currently, Wu is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Northwester University, Evanston, IL.

His interests include Computer Science Education, Java, Databases, Object-Oriented Databases, User Interface Design, and Robotics. He has published many articles as well as two textbooks.

C. Thomas Wu is of Chinese descent, but was born in Japan. He has recently decided to change his last name to Otani, but is going to continue using Wu as his pen name.