• July 2022 to present, Executive Dean of Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology;

• August 2017 to present, Deputy Dean of the School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology;

• May 2008 to present, associate professor, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology;

• July 2000 to May 2008, research engineer and research team leader of Signal Processing Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;

• March 1998 to April 2000, software engineer of Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.

• Ph.D., June 2006, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;

• Master, March 1998, Major in Communication and Electronic Systems, Department of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics;

• Bachelor, June 1995, Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

• Pattern recognition, machine learning and applications in biomedical signal processing;

• Brain computer interface, brain signal processing and application;

• Intelligent robot technology and application;

• Digital signal processing and multimedia application.

• Digital Signal Processing，Frontier Technology Discussion in Signal Processing and Machine Learning, Modern Signal Processing, Signal and System, Biomedical Signal Processing, Modern Digital Signal Processing, Brain-Computer Interface and Brain Information Processing, Electromagnetic Field and Electromagnetic Wave, Advanced Algorithmic Language

2020

• [5]X. Deng, Z. L. Yu*, C. Lin, Z. Gu, Y. Li, “A Bayesian Shared Control Approach for Wheelchair Robot with Brain Machine Interface”, IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehab. Eng., vol. 28, no. 1, Jan. 2020.

2019

• [1]J. Li, Z. L. Yu*, Z. Gu, H. Liu and Y. Li, “Dilated-Inception Net: Multi-scale feature aggregation for cardiac right ventricle segmentation”,  IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 66, no. 12, pp3499-3508, Dec. 2019

• [2]J. Li, Z. L. Yu*,  Z. Gu, Y. Wang, M. Tan, and Y. Li, “Spatial-Temporal Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Event-related Potential Detection and Analysis”, IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehab. Eng., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 139-151, Jan. 2019

• [3]K. Liu, Z. L. Yu*, W. Wu, Z. Gu, J. Zhang, L. Cen, S. Nagarajan and Y. Li,  “Bayesian Electromagnetic Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Extended Sources based on Matrix Factorization”,  IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. , vol. 66. no. 9, pp. 2457-2469, Sept. 2019

• [4]X. Xie, Z. L. Yu*, Z. Gu and Y. Li, “Classification of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices based on Bilinear Isometric Riemannian Embedding”, Patten Recognition, vol. 87, pp. 94-105, March. 2019.

2018

• [6]J. Li, Z. L. Yu (*), Z. Gu, W. Wu, Y. Li and L. Jin,“A Hybrid Network for ERP Detection and Analysis Based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines”, IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.，vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 563-572, March 2018

• [7].X. Xie, Z.L. Yu*, Z. Gu, J. Zhang, L. Cen, and Y. Li, “Bilinear Regularized Locality Preserving Learning on Riemannian Graph for Motor Imagery BCI”, IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehab. Eng., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 698-708, March, 2018

• [10].Z. Zhang, Y. Lin, S. Li, Y. Li, Z.L. Yu, Y. Luo, “Tricriteria Optimization-Coordination Motion of Dual-Redundant-Robot Manipulators for Complex Path Planning”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26 , no. 4,  pp. 1345 – 1357, July 2018

2016

• [8].K. Liu, Z. L. Yu*, W. Wu, Z. Gu, Y. Li, S. Nagarajan, “Bayesian Electromagnetic Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Extended Sources with Markov Random Field and Temporal Basis Expansion”, NeuroImage，vol 139， pp385-404， Jun 2016.

2015

• [9].Ke Liu, Z. L. Yu*, Wei Wu, Zhenghui Gu, Yuanqing Li，“STRAPS: A Fully Data-Driven Spatio-Temporally Regularized Algorithm for M/EEG Patch Source Imaging”， International Journal of Neural Systems, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2015) 1550016

• 1.Z. L. Yu, M. H. Er, W. Ser, and H. Chen, Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wiresless Networks.Hershet, New York: IGI Group Inc., 2008, ch. Robust Adaptive Beamforming, pp. 33–59. (PDF)

• 2.Z. Gu, G. Erry, and Z. L. Yu, Radiolocation in Cellular Systems: Parameter Estimation and Accuracy Improvement. VDM Publishing House Ltd., 2009.

• 3.L. Cen, W. Ser, Z. L. Yu and W. Cen, Pattern Recognition, Recent Advances. In-Tech, 2010, ISBN 978-953-7619-90-9 , ch. Automatic Recognition of Emotional States from Human Speeches (PDF)

• 4.L. Cen, M. H. Dong, H. Z. Li, Z. L. Yu, P. Chan, Application of Machine Learning， In-Tech, 2010, ISBN 978-953-307-035-3, ch. Machine Learning Methods in the Application of Speech Emotion Recognition. (PDF)

• 5.Cen L, Wu F, Yu Z L, et al. Chapter 2 – A Real-Time Speech Emotion Recognition System and its Application in Online Learning[J]. Emotions Technology Design & Learning, 2016:27-46.

• 1.M. Zhang, Z. L. Yu, and H. Lan, “Post-processing scheme for adaptive directional microphone system with noise/interference suppression,” U.S. 7181026B2, PCT/SG01/00163, Dec. 2004. (PDF)

• 2.Z. L. Yu, M. Zhang, H. Lan, and S. Rahardja, “Adaptive control system for noise cancellation,” U.S. 7092529B2, May 2004. (PDF)

• 3.Z. L. Yu and W. Ser, “Adaptive noise cancelling microphone system,” U.S. Patent 6917688B2, Mar. 2004.  (PDF)

• 4.W. Ser, Z. L. Yu, and F. Yang, “Wireless heartbeat and respiratory rate monitoring system,” PCT/SG2008000349.

• 5.W. Ser, Z. L. Yu, and F. Yang,” A Method for Detecting Hearbeat and/or Respiration”, 欧洲专利 EP2323546B1 （PDF）