Hu Yu

Biography

Dr. Yu Hu is a professor of School of School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, the director of Wuhan Research Institute for Smarter Cities and an elective expert of 1000 Young Talent Plan of China. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. both from the Department of Computer of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hu’s research interests include cyber-physical systems, data processing and data mining, computer-aided design for integrated circuits and systems. He has been the PI for research projects with over CAN$ one million financial support. His research has been funded by agents including Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. The Wuhan Research Institute for Smarter Cities, which he is currently directing, is the official research facility funded by the Wuhan local government as a platform to incubate innovation of the smarter-city applications. Dr. Hu has published over 50 research papers and received three best paper award nominations from top conferences in the field, including IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2010 and IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2009 and 2008. He also received the best contribution award from IWLS 2008 IEEE programming challenge.

Research Interest

cyber-physical systems, data processing and data mining, computer -aided design for integrated circuits and systems