Dr. Yu severs as an Editorial Board Member of several flag journals, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Trans. Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Science China Information Sciences, Science China Technological Sciences, etc. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Complex Engineering Systems. He was listed by Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering in 2014-2024. He publishes about 100 IEEE Transactions journal papers with more than 20,000 citations. Moreover, Dr. Yu is also the recipient of the Second Prize of State Natural Science Award of China in 2016. He is also the Cheung Kong Scholars Programmer of Ministry of Education of China (Artificial Intelligence).
Currently, he is the Dean in the School of Mathematics. He is also a Full Professor with the Endowed Chair Honor in Southeast University, China. Professor Yu is also the Executive Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence, the Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Ministry of Education of China, the Head of the Information Mathematics Discipline in the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals, Purple Mountain Laboratories, the Executive Director of the Jiangsu National Center of Applied Mathematics in Southeast University, and the Huawei-Southeast University Networked Collective Intelligence Joint Innovation Lab.
Wenwu Yu received the B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2010.