Xu Yu received his Ph.D. in 2013 from Wuhan University. He worked as a postdoctoral  researcher at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,  USA and the Department of Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem,  Israel, respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include  microfluidic chip, biosensors, and nanotechnology.