Plenary Speakers

Prof. Fei Wu is Associate Professor with Tenure and Deputy Director of the Department of Physical Education and Research at Peking University, China. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee (URC) and is an International Elite Referee of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Over the past decade, Prof. Wu has been deeply involved in international sport governance, major event operations, and the implementation of competition rules at the highest level of world table tennis. She has participated in the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, and WTT Grand Smash events in multiple officiating and governance roles, including serving as Deputy Referee at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She is widely recognized as one of the leading representatives of Chinese international technical officials in global sport governance.

Her research focuses on international sport governance, officiating systems, technology-assisted decision-making, competition management, and the institutional operation of sport rules. In recent years, she has conducted extensive studies on technology governance and rule implementation in elite table tennis, particularly regarding the Table Tennis Review (TTR) system and international officiating standards. Some of her research findings were referenced by the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee during the revision process of the 2026 Handbook for Match Officials (HMO).

Prof. Wu has also worked closely with the Chinese National Table Tennis Team for many years, contributing to Olympic preparation through technical and tactical analysis, competition intelligence, and rule-related research. Her policy research on China's participation in international sport organizations and global sport governance has been adopted by internal reference reports of People's Daily and received attention at the national policy level in China.

At Peking University, Prof. Wu teaches and supervises graduate students in the areas of sport governance, competition organization, and physical education. She actively promotes interdisciplinary approaches combining sport, governance, digital technology, and education, and has published extensively in leading Chinese and international academic journals.