Dr. Yu is currently an Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Fellow in SSE, CUHK-SZ. He is also the Director of the Research Center on Microrobotics, Shenzhen Institute of AI and Robotics for Society. His research interests mainly focus on micro/nanorobotics, including their fundamental modelling, actuation strategy, motion and reconfiguration control, and biomedical applications. He has published over 50 top journal and international conference papers, including Science Advances, Nature Communications, IJRR, and T-Ro. Several of his journal papers have been indexed as ESI highly cited papers, and have been highlighted in Science, Nature and international press reports, such as CNN. He has also published 2 monographs and 1 edited book. He has won several impactful awards, including the second prize of Wu Wen Jun AI Science & Technology Award, Baidu Global Chinese Young Scholar in AI, and T-Mech best paper award finalist.