Dr. Yu is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. He got his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2011, and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University. He joined SUSTech in January 2021. Dr. Yu's research interests center on flexible electronic packaging materials and non-lithographic patterning techniques. He has published over 20 papers as the first/corresponding author such as Nature Energy and Advanced Materials, with a total citation above 5000 times. He has won the National Outstanding Self funded International Student Award and the American Vacuum Association Film Graduate Award.