Dr. Yu obtained his B.S. degree from Fudan University (Shanghai China) and obtained M.S/Ph. D degrees both from electrical engineering department at UCLA, USA, with major of integrated circuit and embedded computing. He was an Assistant Professor in school of electrical and electronic engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr. Yu has 267 peer-reviewed and referred publications [conference (175) and journal (92)], 9 books, 9 book chapters, 1 best paper award in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 1 Springer PhD thesis award (advisor), 3 best paper award nominations (DAC’06, ICCAD’06, ASP-DAC’12), 3 student paper competition finalists (SiRF’13, RFIC’13, IMS’15), 2 keynote talks, 1 inventor award from semiconductor research cooperation (SRC), and 20 granted patents. He is Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuit and System (2017-),  Associate Editor of Elsevier Integration, the VLSI Journal (2016-), Elsevier Microelectronics Journal (2016-), Nature Scientific Reports (2016-), ACM Trans. on Embedded Computing Systems (2017-) and IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2017-), and Technical Program Committee member of several conferences (DAC’15-16, DATE’15-17, ICCAD’10-12, ISLPED’13-15’17, ASP-DAC’11-13’15-16, A-SSCC’13-17, APMC’17, BioCAS’16, ICCD’11-13, ISCAS’10-13, RFIT’15,IWS’13-14, NANOARCH’12-13, ISQED’09). His main research interest is about smart energy-efficient data analytics, links and sensors with multi-million government (PI of 1 NRF-CRP, 2 MOE-TIER-2 etc.) and industry (Intel, Huawei, BGI etc.) funding. His industry work at BDA is also recognized with an EDN magazine innovation award and multi-million venture capital funding. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM.