Yu Rao is a Professor at the Institute of Turbomachinery, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Beijing University and TU Darmstadt in Germany in 2006. His current interests include (1) Gas Turbine Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Cooling Technology; (2) Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis in High-Performance Heat Exchangers; (3) Advanced Experimental Techniques in Thermo-Fluids; and (4) Computational Methods in Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics in Gas Turbines.