Wu Heling graduated from the Department of Automatic Control of Beijing Institute of Technology, with a major in computing. He taught at the university until he retired in 1998. He was director of the Department of Computing at the Beijing Institute of Technology.

He has compiled and translated more than 10 books, of which the Popular Science book won second prize for National Science and Technology in 2009.

Among his works, The Principles and Design of Databases was awarded first prize for excellent teaching materials by the former Ministry of Electronics Industry; ACM Turing Award—Epitome of Computer History and IEEE Computer Pioneer Award—Timeline Inventions in Computer Science and Technology are regarded as excellent works of the combination of technology and culture. They are recommended by many media, including China Education Television (CETV), Science & Technology Review magazine and China University Teaching. Prisoner's Dilemma--Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Riddle of Atomic Bomb is awarded the excellent translation of “The Third Wu Dayou Popular Science Book Prize” in Taiwan and is awarded the popular science work in the “Science Times Reading Cup”. Magic Square and Others-- Entertainment of Classical Mathematics Questions (the second edition) and Tangram, Chinese Ring Puzzle and Klotski are successively listed in the “Hundreds of excellent books recommended to teenagers by GAPP” in 2004 and 2006. Maze Witticism is selected to be in the second “Three 100” original books’ publication programme of GAPP.

Many of his research results have won the award for science and technology progress at the ministerial level. One of them has been used at the launch site of China’s manned spacecraft and won second prize for technology progress from the PLA General Armament Department. He is one of the chief creators of Fun Math, which won the second prize for national technology progress.