Wenwei Yu received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in System Information Engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Rehabilitation Medical Science from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2003. He served as an Assistant Professor with the System Information Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, from 1999 to 2003. He was an Exchange Research Fellow with the Center for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Canada, in 2003, supported by the Researcher Exchange Program, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Medical System Engineering, School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan, since 2004 and has also been a Professor, since 2009. Since 2006, he has been a member of the AI Lab, Zurich University, Switzerland, as a Visiting Professor, supported by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has authored and coauthored more than 150 papers in peer-reviews journals, book chapters, and more than 170 international conference papers. His research interests include neuroprosthetics, rehabilitation robotics, motor control, and biomedical signal processing. He is a member of the Robot Society of Japan (RSJ) and the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE).