Winston Wu

Winston Wu is a first-year PhD student at Johns Hopkins University studying computer science with a focus in computational linguistics. A native of Houston, he received undergraduate degrees in computer science and Latin from the University of Texas at Austin, with a minor in piano. Having studied the piano since the age of six, Winston has won many awards at local competitions, including Honorable Mentions at the International Chopin Youth Competition in 2007 and 2009. As a winner of the Clear Lake Symphony Youth Concerto Competition in 2008, he performed Liszt’s Totentanz with the Clear Lake Symphony, and he was also featured with the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra in 2009, performing the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Winston currently studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Chad Bowles.