Yang Yu, Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2003 and his PhD in Communication and Information Systems Engineering from the same university in 2010. He has been teaching at Northwestern Polytechnical University since September 2010. In May 2014, he conducted visiting research at the Computer Vision, Video and Speech Signal Processing Laboratory (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, UK, for one year. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Director and Branch Secretary of the Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, School of Navigation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Deputy Director of the Information and Communication Engineering Discipline Group. His research focuses on embedded systems, machine learning, underwater target recognition, and sound event detection.