Shaina Wu was born on September 10, 1963 in Beijing, China. She graduated from Beijing Jiaotong university in 1986. Shaina was married to Yanming Xu in 1988, and gave birth to Zheng a year later. In 2001,she and her family came to Canada. After half year, she worked in Stantec Consulting until 2008 and worked as a senior Bridge engineer in AECOM until her passed away on Jan 13, 2014.