He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2002. Before joining NUS in September 2010, he worked in DSO National Laboratories of Singapore as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, where he worked on exoskeleton and humanoid robots as well as intelligent ground and aerial robots. His current research at NUS focuses on robotics for neurorehabilitation, assistive technologies, robotics in surgery, and bio-inspired robots. Dr. Yu is a member of IEEE. He received the Best poster award in the 2013 IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference. His webpage is at http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/people/PI/YUHaoyong/default.html