Yu Du is a Professor at the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University. He also serves as a Member of CNC-WWRP, a Member of CNC-IAMAS, a Member of the AOGS, the Atmospheric Science Secretary, and the Co-Chief Scientist of the Key Innovation Team of China Meteorological Administration (Tropical Meteorology). He received his BS in Physics from Beijing Normal University in 2010 and completed his Ph.D. in Meteorology at Peking University in 2015. Before joining Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor in 2017, he was a Research Scientist in Meteorology at IBM Research (2015–2017), a Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (2013–2015), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2012–2013). His main research interests include mesoscale dynamics, severe weather, low-level jets, gravity waves and cold pools, the diurnal cycle of rainfall, sea breeze, and mesoscale numerical modeling and forecasting.